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number of students expected to enrol last year to materialize, had posed the ominous threat of U of W ending the present fiscal period with a deficit. However, lauding the efficient management of funds over the past few months, he said there will “not be a deficit for the period ending april 30.”

Aside from drastically altering the spending of the university, the drop in enrolment forced a lowering of the expected leveling off point for the number of students attending this university.

While in 1968-69 the projected stabilized enrolment had been -set at approximately 14,666, this figure has been recently, revised to slightly over 11,ooO; with the rider that the university must be prepared for an absolute decrease in the number of students by 1975. No mention was made concerning the philosophy behind the provincial governn ment’s actions which make such projections possible, and even probable.

Matthews enlightened those ‘-“Y with the startling present that the university is In fine bureaucratic style, ad- revelation “showing signs of maturity”, an ministration president Burt observation apparently drawn Matthews presented what in effect in earth amounted’ to a University of from his background sciences, basing it primarily on the Waterloo version of a state-of-thefact that he sees “less mud and union address. Having called for more ivy” on campus. However, a meeting of faculty and staff in the the catalyst which has successfully afternoon, tuesday catapulted U of W out of humanities theatre, Matthews adolescence into maturity, was the outlined, for the 266 who attended, suddenly imposed economic “things as I see them”. That these within which thethings dealt primarily with the constraints finds itself working finances of the institution came as university today, and for the foreseeable no surprise, and in fact, little more future. than fiscal considerations appear To compound the constraints - to have crept into the outlined imposed by the lower level of policy of the university. enrolment, the provincial Supported by a myriad of multiannounced a freeze on coloured statistical graphs and government for physical tables, Matthews explained how grants to universities the present situtation of post- expansion. If any act could ensure the coming of age of a university in secondary education in Ontario, and the unexpected drop in last a physical manner, this can. One consequence of the year’s enrolment, imposes a direct change of complexion upon the provincial policy has been the dropping of plans for a U of W University of Waterloo. ‘In effect, the inability of the projected Kinetic and Leisure Studies

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Building, and-consequently, in the physical sense, it has passed out of the stage of concentrated growth.

This departure from past policies does not necessarily entail an assumption of a stagnant academic atmosphere.

The sudden maturity whcih has descended upon the campus, does not preclude the existence of policy directions reflecting vitality and In Matthews eyes, imagination. the university “must strive . for measures in progress other‘ than size”, and as it assumes “some of the characteristics of maturity, it will maintain the characteristics of youth-imagination, willingness to innovate.”

By changing the focus of planning from a high rate of growth to “slow growth or no growth” does not remove the problems of financing the university which have plagued the administration during the past fiscal period.

Methods of funding, among other things, is a major sore spot, in Matthews view, contributing an air of uncertainty to the budget of the university.

The granting of the Basic Income Unit on a per student basis, necessitates the stalling of complete funding for the fiscal period until the enrolment figures are available, usually eight months into the period. Aside from -continued

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be the official reaction of the provincial department of university affairs. A memo dated april 1969 from the director of student awards states, “Students are not to be issued the grant cheque, or any portion of the funds represented thereby, unless arrangements satisfactory to the institution have been made for the payment of outstanding fees.”

Speakers from outside groups were also heard. The Council of Ontario Universities, a body representing the administrations, n declined an invitation to do so, but the CUA and OCUFA accepted. , .

It The CUA, the Committee on University Affairs, is supposed to act as an advisory body to the n I provincial government and is composed of a cross-section of people from the academic community.

Represented by a Dr. Parr, the most the CUA seemed In the wake of the ill-fated able to say was that the governdemonstration at Queen’s ‘Park on ment had not consulted it on the plans to more heavily burden november 21, the Ontario Federation of Students met in students in financing education nor Toronto last weekend to determine had the CUA worked out its its future course of action. position in relation to the pressing Following two days of meetings issues of tuition and OSAP, the and heated discussion, a flurry of Ontario Student Awards Program. resignations, and a parliamentary The position of OCUFA, the bombshell, it was decided that OFS Ontario Confederation of would call for a fee strike in University Faculty Associations, january . The general meeting was raised the hackles of several held at Ryerson Polytechnical student delegates.

Speaking for OCUFA, Jim Stevens said the Institute.

The OFS executive had hoped organization is pursuing on a that the delegates would be well provincial scale, faculty salary prepared to, enable the body to raises exceeding ,lO per cent. In view of-the general crisis in educareach a decision which would have “the full sanction of its memtional finances, with talk of faculty bership, and not be left in the cutbacks and abolition of tenure, a deplorable confusion that arose possibility mentioned by Stevens, with the organization’s decision to it struck some OFS delegates as sponsor the Queen’s Park demonludicrous that OCUFA could ask stration”.

-for conditions that would intensify Delegates from 18 member instithe financial crisis. As related to tutions presented information on student concerns, Stevens ’ their respective council’s posisuggested there was no common tions, estimates of student support ground for student-faculty unity. on their campuses, and anticipated ’ The pivotal issue for the OFS administration reaction and meeting wasa provincial-wide call possible penalites in the event of a for students to withhold january fee strike. (Somewhat ironically, fees payments.

It was hotly the three big universities that debated in terms of general failed to back the OFS day of student support and retaliatory protest at Parliament, came on action by authorities.

An afternoon committed to vote showed 8 in favor of a strike, 4 vehemently withholding fees in january. abstaining and 5 opposed including Western, Queen’s, and the Waterloo (represented

by Luke University of Toronto even talked Aujame, Fred Bunting, and Shane of carrying on their own fee strike -Roberts).

The lack of decisive if O.F.S. failed to back one>. Less unity on the question moved some than half of the remaining counsupporters of the motion to re-open cil’s had given their delegates a debate that evening. This was done mandate to back the strike. with the use of a formal Student support was barely parliamentary procedure which fathomable.

The known positions nullified the earlier vote on the of the administrations varied from strike. sympathy with students to threats In the midst of momentary of expulsion. confusion, one delegate called for A prominent and largely quorum, a move that would have unanswered question concerned cost him his head in a less civilized the OSAP- grant checks due in setting. As it was, a head count of january.

Would striking students delegates showed the meeting one ever see their OSAP checks or person short of quorum. In effect, the entire day’s could the grants be held back? A this torpedoed questionnaire sent to adsession.

OFS’ general meeting ministrations across the province could not vote an official stand. indicated that most universities During the day’s debates the have procedures denying students executive had tried to work out a access to these monies until fees compromise on the strike in an are paid. ’ attempt to unify the delegates The The legality of administrations compromise called for a one month holding back the grant checks has withholding of fees. The proposal been questioned.

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from page 1 being a stumbling block in the way of the efficient running of the university, this provides the reason for the present level of competition between universities in Ontario.

This method “forces every university to achieve projected enrolment”, and in the situation where the expected number of students embarking upon post-secondary education are not materializing, the field becomes open for “unethical” competition.

Explaining away the accusations leveled at U of W for embarking upon such unethical practices in a purely economic frame of references, Matthews did not seem perturbed by the decidedly businessoriented flavour accrued by the distribution of the admissions brochure through “Today’s Generation”, publication geared to the hi; school student.

In Matthews opinion, the justification lies in the fact that this method of distribution costs six cents a copy less than last year, when the brochure was printed up for the university and mailed out, an understandable analysis from his position as administrator.

Following the rather one-sided picture 6f the position of the university, namely the financial overview, the few questions posed were timid and shallow. One query on the federal government’s role in the funding of universities, prompted Matthews to discuss further the difficulties of financing the university.

The distribution of money granted by the federal government for universities is presently under discussion, and the possible *outcomes will drastically affect future policy. If thismoney is passed on to Queens Park without any stipulation as to the spending of it, the provincial government could cut even further the budget for post-secondary education, and use federal grants supposedly for education to expand the “GO” train system.

An attempt was made to get a statement from Matthews on the present salary situation of the faculty, a move smoothly sidestepped with the statement that he “hopes to maintain salaries at a competitive level”, leaving the question hanging in the air. The faculty’s complaint about the lagging behind those gained by labour, of the scale increases gained over the past few years, lost more fuel when it was pointed out that while U of W is thirteenth of the fourteen Ontario universities in library spending, it ranks in the top two in average salary paid to faculty.

With no further questions, the gathering broke up after Matthews thanked those who attended for making time to hear his policy statement.

Apart fro’m the revelation concerning the coming of age of U of W, and a rather sketchy outline of the finances, little was revealed about specific policy to be followed by the administration, however.

The meeting was however, carried off with flair. continued

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ST JOHN’S (CUP&Students at Memorial University have virtually won their fight over the checkoff of the student union fees, following a lo-day non-violent occupation ot their administration building. Bob Buckingham, one of ’ the student negotiators, said the students were very happy with their apparent victory.

A tentative agreement was reached early friday nov. 24 following negotiations between representatives from both the students and the administration.

The negotiations were mediated by members of the faculty association.

The agreement must still be ratified by the Board of Regents at their dec. 14 meeting and by students in a referendum, for which no date has been set.

The university stipulates the university must collect the 8 dollar student union fee each semester, but student union membership will not be compulsory.

Apparently a student could get his 8 dollars back from the student union if he did not want to be a member.

The dispute followed an announcement nov. 9 by university president Taylor that the administration would no longer collect the student union fees as of dec 81 of this year. He claimed the Board of Regents were concerned about the fact that half the $140,000 collected for the union was spent on administration, $42,000 of that on salaries.

(Most student unions budgets reveal similar breakdowns and about 88 per cent of most university operating budgets cover salaries and administrative costs.)

Until thurs nov 28, Taylor had refused to negotiate with the students unless they agreed to vacate the administration building. However, the threat of a student strike called for nov ~~3-4 and the possible intervention of Newfoundland’s premier Frank i Moores, apparently forced Taylor to the negotiating table. Moores was called by the student negotiating committee because the government had taken no official stand on the issue.

The students received support from most of Newfoundland’s large unions, including the largest-the loggers’ union-and tbe St John’s Trade Council.

The Memorial Faculty Association voted nov 20 not to support the students’ occupation.

The vote was 70-50 and with 100 abstentions.

However, they did agree to mediate the negotiations between the two groups. . Also, representatives from the Board of Regents agreed no reprisals of any kind would be taken against any student involved in any way with the occupation.

Students agreed that their victory was partially due to the fact that they stuck to only one issue throughout their entire battle, although they do have a great many more grievances against the administration.

Students are angry with the accomodation currently available for their student union$ a universityowned building.

They have put forward! several proposals for a student union building, a stadium and a student housing complex but these have always been opposed by Taylor.

Other contentious issues are the recent hike in the university entrance requirements and the use, by the administration, of the bell curve for adjusting marks.

However, Taylor seems to have been cut down to size by. his intransigence in firstly not negotiating with students then having to reverse his position. At present the faculty are circulating a petition calling for Taylor’s resignation and if it is successful he may not be at Memorial for very much longer.

Regina sit-in fails REGINA (CUP&Students at the University ,of Saskatchewan Regina campus have suspended their occupation of two administration offices for at least one week while a negotiating committee takes up an offer to work for parity “within the system”.

The decision was made at a general meeting november 22 attended by more than 800 students.

Regina campus principal John Archer addressed the meeting and asked students to call off the occupation.

In return he would support a review of the nature and level of student participation on

the university’s decision-making Regina Allied Printing Trades bodies “with a view to ensuring Union said he welcomed an that students have opportunity to alliance between working people make their full contribution”, he and students. said.

Waffle supporter and MLA for “I would welcome and urge a the New Democrats, John review of the University Act and I Richards, told the young people it am prepared to discuss proposed was up to them to change the changes with faculty and students, university.

They could expect and to take steps to arrange a reaction he said from the admeeting with the minister of ministration and the department of education and his deputy minister education and only minimal to pursue this end,” Archer said. assistance fro’m faculty.

But he would not give even verbal Richards said the government support to the students’ demands, would have to b-e pr-essured to and did not explain what he meant accept as policy a resolution which contribution”.

The supported student demands for bY “full students responded by passing a autonomous campuses and five-point motion establishing the representation on the board of conditions under which the oc- government which was passed by cupation would end: the provincial convention two 0 to accept the report of the weeks ago. It called for one-third student negotiating committee on representation on governing discussions with the administration and fadty about --continued ‘on page 14 parity. a to suspend the occupation of two administration offices that began november 16. l to make clear to Archer that the students are not prepared to continued from page1 negotiate the right to parity but only the implementation of it. of the executive as having ad0 that failure to recognize that vocated “sellout” with- such a demand will result’ in further “token” strike. This charge was drastic actions. accompanied by general up0 that the negotiating committee braiding of the executive for report to a general meeting of having failed to provide students within one week. “leadership”.

All this was taken to The negotiating committee is heart- and of the seven man composed of six students-thtee . executive, four resigned. from social science, two Resigning executive member from education, and one from Ross McGregor from Western administration.

Another comUniversity claimed the whole idea mittee will be established to of a fees strike was “political examine changing the University suicide” considering the provinceAct to provide more student, wide lack of student support faculty and community control. evidenced, he felt, by the conThe committee will be composed of ference’s split vote. University of one-third students, one-third Toronto’s executive member, Eric faculty, and one-third members of Miglin commented that he was the outside community who must doing the_ federation a favor by be acceptable to student and resigning because he felt no enfaculty representatives. thusiasm for the OFS position.

Last friday, about 150 students An interim executive was apmarched on the provincial pointed which immediately faced While student legislature. the task of salvagirig the weekend. representatives were conferring One critical matter was that of with premier Allan Blake&y, keeping from the press the day’s National Farm Union represenhighlights.

The .executive decided tative Jack McCloy told the body of to go ahead with .the afternoon’s students assembled in the foyer weak majority stand, and while that that the NFU supported their sending the strike iscue back to “demands for a university which campus councils for a final vote, will truly serve the people of proceed to plan a strike campaign.

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, Forsey. holds forth Senator Eugene Forsey has been _ described as Canada’s leading constitutional authority.

On november 1, the day after the latest federal election, the senator commented over CBC radio that even though the conservatives were leading in parliamentary seats, this did not mean that the next government of Canada would be in the hands of Mr. Stanfield. On the contrary, the liberals would remain the government.

Although this was common knowledge to historians, politicians and the like, it was not known to the bulk of the Canadian electorate.

Addressing an audience numbering over 75, in the biology building last wednesday, Forsey pointed out the constitutional aspects of minority governments.

- Minority governments are not an extraordinary affair in British commonwealth countries and for many are the rule almost more than the exception.

Contrary to what some politicians may want their electorate to believe, a minority government is not necessarily weak or indecisive.

Unlike a majority government whose executives have often been criticized for having too great a power, a minority government must, because of its precarious position, keep on its guard and consult its potential supporters.

The need to obtain support outside its own ranks “can force the minority government to do many wise and good things. The Pearson government adopted some very useful legislation. If a man knows he may be executed in twenty-four hours it concentrates his mind marvellously , and likewise if a government knows that it may be executed in twenty-four hours it concentrates its mind marvellously . ” In Forsey’s view most constitutional rules are based on common-sense.

While it is useful axd informative to look at precedents the most important question becomes-is it sensible?

-1 The senator did not elaborate on what he meant by sensible.

Continuing his discussion of minority governments, Forsey elaborated on the constitutional powers of the governor-general and the prime minister. - The , decision to dissolve parliament and call another election ‘is not with the prime minister.

First Parliament must meet to see if a government can be formed.

An exception to this is the case of a tie, as has occured in P.E.I. and Newfoundland where the house was unable to elect a speaker.

Without a speaker, no motions can be entertained and there is no recourse except an election.

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not, must meet the house at the earliest reasonably possible time.

Forsey was quick to point out that photo by gord moot-e “what is reasonably possible is a matter of judgement.”

True enough, but whose judgement?

Forsey argues that herein lies the power of the governor-general who can ensure that parliament cannot be delayed too long. By law, parliament must meet at least once a year. “If the governorgeneral is prepdred only to act as a rubber stamp, you could have a government meeting parliament once every year.” MacKenzie King did just that on january 5, 1940 when he met with parliament for a matter of hours and then closed the session for the year.

Where a minority government meets parliament and is defeated in a motion of confidence, it has no alternative but to resign from office. If the opposition party is willing to assume power and if it seems that they could form a government, it is the responsibility of the governor-general to call them to form a government.

However, if the opposition- party cannot or will not form a government, it is then the province of the governor-general to dissolve parliament.

CITY (CUPI)--The Forsey stated that the governorfugene Forsey, talking on the implications of minority government In QUEBEC strike

by CEGEP general must, in deciding on Canada, said “the people have made up their mind that they are not threatened (community college) students in dissolution, consider: whether --enamoured with the prospects of majority government,” and suggested Quebec has apparently forced the there is an alternative; how long ihat without a guaranteed control of the house, the government was provincial government to withago the last election was; the state more likely to be responsive to public opinion. draw its tough new regulations-at of the parties; the redistribution examine existing inventories of least until spring. according to the last census. space with a view to more inThe national executive of the The power of the Governor tensive utilization and generally to Front des Etudiants du Quebec General is tucked away.

“In reconsider their plans for future (FEQ) voted sunday to call off the serious circumstances he should development. ’ ’ strike.

The decision followed and would use the power.”

There are many factors behind receipt of a telegram from Quebec Ending with a rendition of a the decision, including the current education minister Francois Gilbert and Sullivan song about drop in enrolment.

The province Cloutier by the various CEGEP girls and boys born liberal and administrations, advising them the conservative and updating it to fell five and a half per cent short of -its estimated post-secondary new rules would be tabled pending include the N,DP Forsey suggested further study. that above all the -electorate enrolment.

Also behind the chooses the house. “If thats the decision is a re-ordering of proCloutier also said the governLast month, the university ment would try to consult students way the people want it, then thats vincial priorities-with the mass transit system announced by Bill revealed a new target budget for and faculty before releasing new the way they should have it under the campus centre. It was not a regulations.

Davis seemingly getting top The controversial democracy.” major budget cut overall, but a rules, -tony di franc0 priority. ‘le nouveau regime raise in the amount for janitorial McNie admitted that new pedagogique’, would have inservices consequently cut the rest provincial priorities are placing creased compulsory weekly class of the budget by 15 per cent. time, increasing pressure -on funds eliminated several On Tuesday, members of the formerly available for colleges and humanities requirements, and board and the university budget universities. allowed school principals to expel Although the cutcommittee met.

The adbacks will affect all universities students and then force them to reministration’s reactions to the and colleges, it is generally register, if they were considered janitorial issue led to three “troublesome”. recognised that the institutions of the most severely affected- would be suggestions for re-allocation Students at the Ste-Hyacinthe funds in the proposed budget: 1) and Alma CEGEPS in the Lac Stthe newer universities and the the campus centre be closed at Jean region werealready community colleges. on strike night from approximately 2 am to 8 and had taken over administration Many community colleges have am. 2) that the turnkeys’ wages be offices, had to get along with make-shift halting all operations. reduced. 3) that the janitors clean facilities using old factories and Students at the English-speaking less frequently than presently. portables.

In the light of MC Nie’s Dawson and John Abbott colleges All were contested by the cut announcement, it seems that longin Montreal had voted to strike for campus centre board: 1) the one day before december 1. promised and much-needed permanent facilities for these in- centre is always in use during the Although FEQ executive period, supplying a members In an announcement made to the stitutions have been postponed or all-night at the november 26 valuable service to the students 2) meeting said strike plans are out of Ontario legislature last thursday, scrapped. turnkeys, are not being overpaid, education minister Jack McNie the question, they indicated the Since 1966,‘when the government announced that there would be “a government is not acting in good started the first applied arts and and many work extra unpaid hours on operational committees 3) the faith. The government deceleration in the flow of capital will release I technology schools or community of the garbage in the its amended regulations support to those institutions which in april colleges as they are called now, a quantity centre shows its’ frequency of use. receive funds through the next year, when most students will total of 246 million dollars has been The administration implied that minis try. ” This means that be out of school and unable to spent on the program.

This essentially, building projects will there is virtually no way for a organize.

The students have no compares with a total of 868 million be limited to those already under encompassing - more guarantee the government will not dollars spent on capital ex- budget construction. money, stressing the possible penditures for universities since bring back the same document or Capital funding has been used by 1964. UW administration discontinuance of the all-night even one more odious. president Some the universities to finance new shift. They will further review the Burt Mathews said at a press students at the meeting termed the buildings and to renovate existing budget and publicize a decision in whole affair “a manoeuvre”. conference friday morning that “it buildings. Previously, universities february. would be quite wrong to- become The executive decided to send and community colleges have been Though the campus centre must committees to each of the six FEQ emotional and quite critical on this able to build up capital through an matter.” definitely get more money in order regions to determine student Mathews also said “the entitlement-grant system based on unfortunate to maintain present resources, let thing is that we have opinion. The information received student enrolment and space them, student cowill be- compiled into a comalready got buildings built and alone improve allocations . The entitlement is projected operation is necessary.

The furon the basis of another prehensive survey. built up over a period of time and enrolment niture in the campus centre has The projection and that government’s an- I when the school has a large enough means that we have space in the been criticized by many and is now nouncement marks the second grant built up, it can apply to the wrong place.” being examined for repairs time in one week that militant ministry for approval of new Although capital funding has needed. Its extreme wear is partly action by students has forced buildings.

If the plans are ap- been virtually cut off completely, it due to frequency of use but can authorities to retreat.

On proved then the school receives the is not known also be attributed to student abuse. whether or not november 23, students - at money1 from the government. operating formulas or income will Cigarette burns, stolen cushions Memorial University ended a, tenMcNie has, in effect, cancelled this and threadbare upholstery are all .day occupation be changed. The operating budget ‘of their adplan for an indefinite length of now becomes the only source of common. ministration building after the time.

Please treat the furniture gently. money that the university can use president agreed to allow students McNie has called the cutback a for renovations or buildings, and If you haven’t already signed a to determine the future of their pause that “will provide the Mathews said there is no money in petition protesting the budget cut, students union. He had earlier government and the institutions and would like to, they are still the operating budget for major refused to continue to collect with the opportunity to study renovations. available. student union fees in an attempt to current- enrolment trends and to -randy hannigan -kim moritsugu destroy the union’s financial base.

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Controlling citizen participation Desmond Connor, president of Connor Development Company, gave a lecture entitled “CitizenParticipation: Meanings, Myths, and Dilemmas”, third in the series of planning lectures sponsored by the planning department.

Connor Development Company’s major focus is in the area of designing and supervising community development.

Considering the generally negative attitude that the political development community has towards “disruptive” community participation, it was encouraging to hear Connor express a somewh$ progressive and constructive view on the subject.

Of course, no other approach should have been expected or tolerated, for citizen participation in planning is a rational and desirable component of any society that pretends to operate on democratic principles.

The lecture began in the traditional academic style of attempting to define what citizens’ group involvement really is, an exercise which, again in traditional academic style, resulted in obscuring a rather selfevident point.

Connor went on to argue that there is an overly cozy relationship among planners, politicians and developers, which leaves the public isolated from the planning process. This sitvation has to be resolved by providing the public with an opportunity to articulate their demands and views on subjects concerning them. During this process of interaction between institutions and people, the planner must listen in an empathetic manner, keeping in mind that he is not the value-free adjudicator that he has pretended to be in the past.

The essential ingredient in formulating a good plan is, said Connor, a compromise.

But, in spite of the views presented by the people, he argued that the council should be allowed to make the final decision, even though politicians do not represent all the views in the community.

In fact, Connor noted, they are overly-representative of the developers who have the wherewithal to finance the exorbitant cost of election campaigns, and hence, have undue influence with politicians.

Having described what he felt to be the dynamics of citizen group involvement, Connor went on to expose some of the myths of the process. Citizen participation does not really increase the cost of planning through hold-ups resulting from disagreements.

It ensures that the plan finally formulated will be more reflective of the interests and needs of the community, thus, avoiding costly errors, (such as the Spadina expressway 1.

Connor also argued for the demise of that antiquated belief that the poor people, or the people

in general, are incapable of rationally deciding their future and, the corollary of this belief; that the “professional” planner is, as a result of his superior intelligence and training, more capable than the local residents, of deciding the future of their community .

Connor also discussed some dilemmas associated with citizen’s group involvement.

For example, should the developer hire a firm such as Connor’s to ensure that involvement remains group cons true tive, or should the developer hope that citizens’ dissension does not flare up during the completion of his project?

Another problem Connor described was that of determining what degree of citizen group involvement was “too much”.

In other words, when has democratic involvement become too democratic?

The major difficulty with citizens’ group involvement is, however, that some people really do have louder voices than others.

Connor suggested, however, that it does not really matter that some interests, such as developers, have louder voices, because everyone motivated to become involved in plan formulation, would have the opportunity.

The developer interests that can afford to finance elections, or that can afford to hire lawyers and other professionals such as Connor himself, are assured of a disproportionate control over the development of the community.

Connor stated that he had not been aware of any decision in planning that was directly or indirectly influenced by money. It seems that either Connor has been ignoring conspicuous examples, or he is just blind.

Who can afford to buy the services of professional organizations

su.ch as the one Connor represents?

Not the citizens’ groups who really need him, but the developers and politicians who, as Connor stated himself, already have an overly abundant opportunity to control planning.

And such organizations as Connor’s, or the planners themselves, pretend that they are not influenced and manipulated by the aspirations of their clients (ie. developers) who pay the bills for such services. In fact, Connor, in defining the function of his company, acttially articulates the view that his company would ensure the client against the possibility of citizen involvement becoming “destructive”.

In other words, Connor was implicitly suggesting that organizations such as the one he represents, are really professional trouble-shooters employed by whoever can pay them, ie. developers and politicians-to quell possible discontent among the opponents of the client, or direct that discontent into “non-destructive” channels.

Connor suggested this be done by compromise, a process that could and has had undesirable implications for the residents of a community.

Take, for example, a developer who wants to construct a &story highrise in a residential neighbourhood that contains some very active community organiza tions.

The developer would call up the professional trouble-shooting organization and be advised by them to apply for approval of a 25 storey highrise and then, through the process of confrontation with community groups, make the pretense of a significant sacrifice by agreeing to only 15 storeys.

Should those people who live and have their life savings in their neighbourhood be forced to compromise with a development corporation which wants to destroy aspects of the neighbourhood for the sake of making money. If the people don’t want the development, a compromise between the developer and the people should not be imposed.

It is erroneous to suggest that it does not matter whether some interest groups have more resources and power than others.

Those who really need the type of assistance that Connor could provide, could not afford to pay him anyway.

What is needed in order to add some equity to a planning process that is currently weighted against the people who have neither the time or money to become involved to the degree that they should, is the establishment of a government grant system to community groups.

This would support the type of assistance and research that is required if people are to have a real voice in the formulation of plans that will colitrol their destiny.

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Rap Room helps The Rap Room is a place to go when you feel like talking to someone, a place where there are other students-willing to listen, not making value judgements, suggesting their personal advice.

It is viewed by some as an alternative to counselling, a friendly response rather than the possibly jaded one of experienced counsellors.

There are approximatel; 40 volunteers working three hour shifts in the rap room, none of whom are specifically psychology or sociology majors.

Volunteers are self-selected in that there is no screening system by leaders of the group. Pete Legate, the counselling services advisor to the group, explained that there is no adequate screening method available by which to judge volunteers.

“That’s one of the problems you really can’t avoid. A volunteer organization has to be open to anyone.” If the ‘job’ is not suitable for them, or unsatisfactory, they will presumably lose interest and stop working there. Of the 40 volunteers, 25 are the inner core who form a nucleus around which the more part-time volunteers can coalesce.

The training approach is that of a common-sense, practical attitude to solving problems rather than an intensely psychological one. There are meetings every other Wednesday evening when training and general discussion among the volunteers takes place.

One training technique is that of role playing, with one volunteer to act out a problem, another trying to counsel him, and the rest offering their comments.

Speakers who sometimes come to meetings are health services representatives to outline available resources, and doctors from the crisis clinic at K-W hospital.

The organiza tion is ’ essentially student-run by a five-man steering committee made up of selfselected Rap Room volunteers, Pete Legate, and often, counselling co-ordinator, Heather Webster.

This group handles the paper work and organizational tasks necessary for the planning of meetings, shift supervising, timetabling, and training sessions.

There is a contiguous examination of ‘the relationship within the organization of the

professional counsellor-studentvolunteer relationships in order to assure that the counsellors are only acting in an advisory position.

The Rap Room is supported by a grant from the university’s counselling services, which has recently been cut from $1500 per year to $700. The budget cut upset the Rap Roomers mainly because the steering committee had no say in its configuration.

Pete Legate reported that it will be cutting close to exist on the decreased budget, especially next term.

One problem of the Rap Room as an operating service is that they feel they are not reaching enough people, perhaps those who most need some one to talk to and are not aware of the Rap Room’s existence and availability.

Tentative plans have been made for ‘reaching-out’ groups composed of Rap Room volunteers, and representatives from the birth control centre and Hi-Line. These groups would go to speak at the Villages and perhaps classrooms to inform people of what is available to them.

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Interfac studies Do you want to participate in a project for credit in the winter term?

A number of students have come forward with projects which they are proposing for accreditation in Inter-Faculties 201: Workshop on Technological and Social Problems.

Each student project needs other students from a wide range of faculties and departments to carry out these projects.

What are the projects? l Investigation into needs and facilities of day-care in K-W. Contact Jane Harding 742-6118.

0 Examination of hidden costs of High Rise High Density Development.

Social science, engineering, and environmental studies people are especially welcome. Contact Jim Martin 5766762.

@ Feasibility of Domes for Housing. Contact Eric Bridgeman A4-124 Phillip St. Co-op or leave message at 885-1211 Ext. 2520. e Ways of Life and Livelihood of Artists. Contact Prof. D. Kirk at 885-1211 Ext. 3941. o Use of Athletic Facilities.

Contact Dan Downey 745-6232.

A number of environmental projects are also available.

Contact the K-W Probe office in biology 158-A or contact Greg Donaldson at 579-4432.

For more information on the workshops, see J. Robinson SSc 329 Ext. 2706 or 2520.

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Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30am Combatives Room, physed. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

International Film Show. ‘Wings to USSR’ ; ‘Across the South Pacific’ and ‘Mexico, Land of Colour and Contrast’.

Sponsored by International Students .Association. 8pm MC2066. Free admission.

MONDAY

Caribbean Students Assoc. presents James Hartley Blues Band. Food Services. Cover charge: UW students $1; others $1.25 Tony Urquhart-boxes Art Gallery, 9-4pm.

and drawings,

Federation Flicks: The Night Visitor, Glen and Randa. 8:00 p.m. Al 116.

SATURDAY Rain will be featured at a Pub-Dance sponsored

by B.U.G.S. (Biology Undergrad Society).

8: 30pm Food Services. Admission $1 with ID card; $1.50 without.

Concert 72. Christmas and contemporary music by St Paul’s College Choir and a folk music trio. Drama by Ecko; selected readings and poetry.

Original compositions by J. Sreenwood.

8pm St Paul’s College. Admission $1.

meeting.

8pm

Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30am Combatives Room, physed. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

Jazz discussion group meeting. Topic ‘Far out jazz of the fifties’. 8-10pm Kitchener Public Library.

Gay Liberation meeting.

8pm welcome.

movement general CC113.

Everyone

Tony Urquhart-boxes Art Gallery 9-4pm.

and drawings.

Free yoga class. 8pm CCllO. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

TUESDAY Religious Studies open lecture. “The Survival of the Sacred”

by Gregory Baum. 3:30pm AL105.

Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30am Combatives Room physed. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

SUNDAY

Tony Urquhart-boxes Art Gallery. 9-4pm.

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Federation Flicks: The Night Visitor, Glen and Randa. 8:00 p.m. Al 116.

and drawings.

WEDNESDAY Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30am Combatives Room, physed. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

Tony Urquhart-boxes Art Gallery. 9-4pm.

and drawings.

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Sentimental value. Call 744-3786 before llam or turn over to security.

All typing done efficiently and promptly. Call Mrs. Marion Wright 745-1111.

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Typing done, also experienced in technical statistical work; IBM Selectric. Call anytime 576-7901.

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Problemes avec des tours de francais?

For assistance based on considerable experience with the French language call Ruth 884-3148.

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‘Voice of the Theatre’ speaker cabinets. J. B. Lansing D130-F 15”. $800 pair. Phone Paul 885-0845.

Martin-D28 with hard-shell year old. 576-2229.

Washing machine old. 5 wash and speeds, minibasket, Available around Contact Sande, ext.

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Viking, 14 months rinse settings, 2 extra-long hoses.

Christmas. $200 3472 or 742-9607.

Yamaha acoustic guitar, 4 years old. $600. Call Susan 578-0049 after 6pm.

Air conditioner Carrier, 3 summers, 6000 BTU, 9.5 amps, fits in sask window $100. Contact Sande ext. 3472 or 742-9607.

RIDE WANTED Girl needs ride between U of W and Guelph daily for winter term. Will share expenses. Phone 822-2268.

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Rooms for rent, kitchen and laundry facilities, close to university, males only. Call 884-1381.

Furnished apartment for 3 or 4 with or without 1 member already for MayAugust term. Ralph 884-6780.

Co-op students townhouse available May to September. 2 bedroom can accommodate four. Swimming pool, rent $170. 885-0837.

12:00 Free yoga class. 8pm CCllO. Sponsored by Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

Still Life by Noel Coward. 12 noon.

Theatre of Arts Free admission

La Societe francais is having a soiree de Noel. 7 : 30pm Minota Hagey lounge.

Refreshments and dance. 50 cents admission at door. Everyone welcome.

Fumed Oak by Noel Coward. 12 noon.

Theatre of Arts. Free admission.

Student Wives Club Chinese auction and Christmas party. 8pm E4-4362. All. students wives are welcome.

Tony Urquhart-boxes Art Gallery. 9-4.

and drawings.

Free yoga class. 8:30-9:30am Combatives Room physed. Sponsored by ’ Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

BaHai’s on campus-fireside.

SSc355. All are welcome. formation call 745-8097.

7-llpm More in-

Waterloo Christian fellowship supper meeting. We offer food for stomach and thought and good fellowship besides.

All are welcome. 5:45pm CC113.

Sir Kenneth Clark’s civilization series.

Subject: The Fallacies of Hope and Heroic Materialism, 7: 15-9pm AL105.

Everyone welcome.

No admission charge. Sponsored by English Dept.

Weekly meeting of the University of Waterloo Christian Science informal group. Discussion and experiences related to the practical value of an understanding of God. 3:30pm HUM151.

Two bedroom apartment to sublet May to September 1973. 10 minute walk to un rversity. Phone 884-87 15.

Toronto, two bedroom apartment, St. Clair Avenue Road, sublet January 1 to April 30, 1973. Phone 416-961-0477 Wayne or Allan evenings.

Two bedroom apartment to sublet May to August, $150 per month, swimming pool, sauna, 2 miles from university, excellent hitch-hiking. 885-8303.

Professor’s furnished home for rent, Westmount area. Available March 1st to July 31st. Phone 576-9143 or 8851211 ext. 2166.

Single room for male, cooking facilities, near university, for winter term. 8844924 evenings.

Girls-two places after Christmas available in townhouse.

Full use of home and equipment. No restrictions.

Mrs. Marion Wright 9-4 745-1111; evenings 885-1664.

Co-op work term 1 or 2 persons to share apartment in Toronto. Available immediately. Call Al days 416-7437240 or write P.O. Box 503, Rexdale.

Two double rooms with kitchen and bathroom facilities for male students.

January to April. Separate entrance, parking. Apply 91 Blythwood Road or phone 885-0914.

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January to April. Phone 742-1593 after 5pm.

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feedback Election

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democracy for the> rich The election dust has yet to settle but still another election is very much in sight. If the next election comes too early then the most important business of any democracy will become too time consuming in addition to the mindboggling moneygobbling event that it is.

As a resident of the riding of Don i valley, Toronto I have been subjected to one of the most expensive Campaigns in Canada. It was a spectacle so unfair, undemocratic, and wasteful in nature, that it took some imagination to realize, that this is the mechanism which is to determine and assure the equality of opportunity; rights and privileges, which a democracy is supposed to stand for.

It is not that I did not expect it, but it is the fact of living through those series of wine and cheese parties from the Conservatives (Ott 3) then the Liberals again (Ott 15)) and those Liberals again (Ott 24) that gets on one’s nerves.

Of course not to be outdone the _ Conservatives throw a big bash in a regular club for a sprawling area of the riding fOct 28), rather than just the apartment building I live iY in.

Mr. Kaplan, the highest spending M.P. in 1968 ($68,009, which is about 4 times an M.P.‘s pay, then $18,000 a year or so), has been outdone this time by another record spending M .P. Mr. Gilles, who has reportedly spent $100,999 It is incredible but or more. probably true. It is like falling from the frying pan into the fire. In addition to the national TV, and other advertising paid for by the parties, they amongst themselves spent a quarter of a million or so. I will not be surprised at all if they outdid themselves next election.

This wasteful spiraling of costs must stop. Such enormous costs in the name of freedom, equality and democracy stink.

If one were to compare the total expenses of the two major parties which is reportedly $12 million (Liberal), $10 million (Conservative) for communicating with the well to do local voter, with the supposedlygenerous humanitarian contribution $22 million to the greatest human tragedy in recent times namely Bangladesh, then it really brings home the highly misplaced priorities of the developed world, and the callously widening gap between the rich and the poor nations.

On the homefront again if one were to judge Candidates by the money spent per Vote obtained \ _ then no doubt Miss Jean Smith of the N.D.P. will rank first in Donvalley, and probably N.D.P.

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will form a majority government. .

This unfair advantage that the Liberals and Conservatives have, or the rich have over the poor, must be eliminated if democracy is to be meaningful at all. The way it is, “Democracy is for the rich, of the rich and is governed by the rich.” the same group of people who Let the “Just Society” begin frustrate the federal government’s with a just election. Without a just policy of bilingualism in the civil election mechanism there will service, threatening the unity of never be a just democratic society.

Canada. A small group of people The high election expenses lower the quality and freedom in a so- should not be allowed to tarnish the image of Canada abroad,let alone called democracy.

I will support any coalition which will pass threaten it’s survival. chaitanya-k. kalevar legislation more comprehensive grad systems design and thorough than the proposed “Elections Expenses Act”.

I hate to be subiected to the open bribery of wine” and cheese kxtravaganzas once again in a short time by Mr. Gilles and his likely ’ Liberal Challenger Mr. Kaplan, the son in law of a millionaire.

Democracy must mean more than a choice between two millionaires, their in-laws, and their friends.

Jock’s 10 commandments; Can the unemployed Ph.d. not add captive mind in a healthy body. something to the debate?

Play 1- play the ball . play 2- WI cannot lose; play 3-we’re okay; chaitanya k. kaleva! play 4---shoot to score; play 5grad systems design we’re hyped on drugs; play 6shower temperature fluctuates ; play ‘I-soap dispensers are orplay 8-avoid the naments; Senate, we’re not scabs.

For those who are not aware, let them be appreciative of the intramural sports arranged for the students by the jock department.

Last Sunday it was my privilege to play for the Chevron People Eators, a basketball team. Our game was scheduled for 8:30 pm with game time being closer to 9 Pm. The Immigration Department is After a fun game marred to a a great disgrace to Canada’s degree by over zealous officiating image abroad as a nation which ‘our team in a sea of perspiration respects the principle of racial dragged itself to the showers.

I equality.

When we asked for towels a fellow On a global scale it has more student behind the counter than 75 percent of it’s offices in proceeded with play 9, “No towels Europe, which may bear some will be handed out after 930 pm.” historical justification.

It is When questioned about the inexcusable that when it’s few rationale behind the rule not to offices in non-European countries give out towels after 9 : 30 pm since are full of unprocessed apit was the jock department that plications that it spends public arranged the game schedule, the money on unnecessary adjock played 9 again: “No towels vertisements, almost all of them in will be handed out after 9:30 p.m.

Europe.

When potential imNo towels will be handed out after migrants from these non9:30 p.m. No towels...”

European areas bypass the inHow it pined me when I suddenly credible bureaucracies (No office realized that our hard fighting in Africa till Uganda expulsion and warriors. have to dry themselves one in India serving all of India and with their jock straps if they forget four other countries) by flying to take their shower at half time. down as visitors to apply from Jocks, take notes on play lOwithin, they are faced with racist hurdle to the summit of Mount administration of the rules to visit Everest, fly your kites, who knows Canada. you may even free your mind.

Global racist budgetary exandrew telegdi penditures and racist adpsych 4 i ministration at home can be eliminated by a drastic reorganisation of offices and priorities abroad and hiring of nonwhites in all critical offices at home.

This may suceed in eliminating racially inspired delays, harrasment This is just a short note to exquestioning, by confiscating passports, and press our feelings about rip off artists at parties. bonds from non-whites. Now, they have even turned back or deported Last Friday, November 17, we had a party in a house on Albert groups of legitimate visitors from non-white areas for reasons of Street; we supplied most of the wanting to immigrate as if that is a dope and booze for our friends. crime. The fact that they cannot But, somebody ripped usoff for all legally immigrate from these our frozen meat.

Whoever you are, we hope you countries in reasonable time remains uncorrected. die of gut rot!

The Civil servants who will oppose such moves are probably pissed off and starving.

Wet look is back

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I a-m writing this letter as a to all the unpublic service suspecting criminal students out there in university land. I would also like to relate my adventures at the hands of our local version of the keystone cops as they successfully handled another threat to their parking security.

On tuesday november 22, I did a bad thing. Without the correct amount to put into the slot, I realized that I could squeeze my MGB under the parking gate.

Feeling like a combination of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Lee Harvey Oswald I slid under the gate and parked my machine.

Little did I know that 75 yards away, my enemy the Kiosk “information expert” was stealthly watching my every move. From that distance using x-ray vision he

read my license plate and observed exactly where I parked through a melee of other cars.

Thus the tow trucks knew exactly which MG (plain dime-a-dozen red) to seize and destroy.

This is w.here the public service comes in. If you, dear reader, get your wheels towed away you are screwed directly in your left ear.

No longer is your car to be found in Bridgeport.

It will be located (after one hour with a happy taxi) on Homer Watson Blvd. across Fairview avenue (which is half way to Lake Erie.)

So, we must (1) all drop out of school so that the security cops can’t get paid, or (2) establish snipers on the roof of the Humanities building to shoot out the wheels of the tow trucks, or (3) saw down the parking gates, or (4) sell our cars; all of which is unlikely. j Take my advice and park legally as its just not worth the new ripples in your car and holes in your wallet.

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warm-up properly before the concert, or, art is not craft. The dance is more than charisma, the feeling of what one would like the unstructured emphasis in dance at the to be doing. university does not lend itself to the serious If dance is to become an art in academe, it pursuit of “performance?

For example, in the excerpt from Brigadoon (a la Agnes is hoped that dancing will not become too DeMille, 1940) the corps de ballet som bet-. Although too serious in its struggled to remain true to the technique of projection, the November concert will be classical ballet. The lack of self-confidence remembered as a good exercise and warmin the corps de ballet was unfortunate . for the future. If we remember Clown,. because theenchainment was composed of we will not forget, that we have forgotten very basic pas (steps) : glissade; pose; how to laugh, for even the god of dance rotation-ecarte; jeter en avant Instead of smiles sometimes. portaying a chorus of mourners, the corps -&avid scheel de ha/let became its own victii of fate. The result was pathos not arising from the funeral dance but from the unpolished vocabulary of the dancers.

In modern dance (or danse libre) the standards of dance follow from an “inTh ternalized logic” and consequently almost , anything is permitted.

One of the elements of surprise in the concert occurred’ in a brief solo by Joanna, Farmer.

During the work she spoke, “Forget it, I don’t feel like dancing,” to which the audience applauded for her integrity.

It seems too much ‘fre’edom leads to negative feelings. In view of the pi>tentiaI of the company it is clear that the dancers should return to their bodies instead of aspiring to impossible drdams and the choreography of pure movement.

There are some fine-actors and acting in As for the dances themselves, the line of the Galt Little Theatre production of the body remained linear (and therefore Anouilh’s The Cavern.

The play itself is non-lyrical) and totally symmetrical.

Except interesting as an example of the modernfor titles it w%s often difficult to distinguish one dance from another.

One quasiday attempt to lay bare the ingredients of impressionistic work, Des Pas dans la drama.

In this example Anouiih follows in the Neige, appeared as if it had been steps of his contemporary, Pirandello, by choreographed by a seventy-five year old producing a play within a play. The woman with arthritis.

Audience tension ostensible situation of the play within, is from psychoanalytical regrets and inthat it is unfinished and that it is up to the trospection was not relieved until the audience to determine its end. finale, Clown. Clown, a modern ballet work, Such a play, should be marked, of course, was choreographed

by Jill. Officer, ballet by aimlessness.

Director Maruti Achanta mistress at the university. ._ has, I think, not achieved this quality enI One honest credit belongs to the comtirely but is to be commended for a creative pany in that dance students are not content approach to setting’ this mood. merely to watch professional companies The but will learn stage design and the craft of aimlessness of the plot fails to be at all strenuous.

Instead, the actors and the making dances for themselves.

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the futureOn thursday, november 23, 11:30 am, the faculty of dance sponsored a one hour concert of works choreographed by company members in Theatre of the Arts. The privilege of students choreographing dances for peers is part of the policy of the Repertory Dance Theatre Group of this university.

The spirit of interplay between choreographer and dancer is consistent with the present “modern” emphasis in dance among the faculty.

Students ard encouraged to explore and experiment with human movement as an art form.

However in spite of the democratic aesthetic, the self-creativity and the selfexpressionism, the works presented lacked certain theatre disciplines.

Distinguishing the dancers from the dance, it became evident that present company members are weak in terms of their technical training.

It could be that most of the performers did not bother to

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actresses appear to be enjoying themselves rather than worrying about the play they dd not have.

Perhaps part of the reason tension was lacking is that there was no audience. This performance was the final dress rehearsal and a chance for the press to preview. With no audience, then, the players had only themselves to act for and by this time are probably too comfortable in the familiarity of their own company.

The pat-t of the Author, could be very effective with an audience for him to interact with, to explain his unfinished play.

Important parts of the play are close to beivg successful.

For instance, the Author”s pity towards Adele manages to be touching, at leasf as long as you know of Anouilh”s pessimism.

One imagines that, like the Author, his pessimism is tinged by pity for peopl,e in Adele’s humiliated condition.

There are other players and scenes in this production worthy of note. The Count is made a quite Iikeable though disillusioning playboy and Romain manages to be very irritable as an upholder of silly and sometimes cruel propriety.

Anouilh is making a slap at Romain’s pretences and the pretences of some clergy and high society by virtue of his versatility in theatrical techniques.

As director Achanta notes there - are elements of tragedy and comedy mixed into The Cavern.

In fact, the play, experimental and varied in form as it is, is-perhaps a good introduction to theatre as well as an upset of one’s attitude towards ‘proper’ theatre.

The play runs december 1 2 and 6 through 9 at 8: 15 in the Gait .Public Library.

Admission for students is $1.50 and $2 for others. Tickets are available at the Central Box Office.

-iynn

Yeah. It”s great. I’m getting a lot of help from fourth year kids. I’m learning a lot in the physiology lab. It”s great. It’s more than I expected socially. I volunteered for the lab to test all the kids and I’m learning to work all the equipment.

Next week I think they”re going to bring in the hockey team and test them. I love it.

bowers

If you knew university was going to be like this would you have enrolled?

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Ben Couture Arts 3 That’s a good question!, I still think I would have enrolled.

It’s sort of deceiving-high school teachers give you the impression of a heavy work load. Like the guidance teachers in my high school are really poor. Socially it’s what I expected.

Most students are friendly.

I’ve learned a lot here academically an,d about myself.

It’s a good university.

Laurie Graham Arts 1 Well no I wouldn’t have. Oh God. It’s my whole attitude toward school. Basically I don’t feel I’m an ‘academic, but I’m not a quitter either. Socially I didn’t have any expectations.

I just stay here during the week and go to school here during the week. I don’t hate it. It’s just that school is school.

Grace Lesfouris Plan 2 .

Yes, mainly because I don’t think it was a lot of work. It’s more important to me than anything else what I get out of it. It’s a means to justify an end. People in my classes are friendly but Canadians in general aren’t.

Probably, yeah. It’s probably a really good opportunity to learn outside the lectures.

If I knew lectures were going to be like this, probably not but I definitely would take advantage of the facilities. ,It’s a good place to exchange ideas. You get to see important people like Ralph Nader and that. If I could do it over again I’d probably take something else like Biology. I’m about to quit in a week anyway.

Come and ask me then.

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According to Pierre Vallieres, Choose! is a broad reconsideration of the Quebecois condition, an expansion more than an abandonment of the ideas presented in his, first book, White Niggers of A’merica. It is clear that from a previously provincial position, Vallieres truly is reaching for international explanations; from a total distrust and dismissal of sell-out political parties, he has discovered the Parti Quebecois can beat the current system by using it to some extent.

Vallieres’ analysis holds that Quebec’s national liberation struggle is part of the initial phase of a drastic revision, a multinational confrontation with imperialism as a mode of production.

He views the world as the victim of imperialism, the outgrowth of a capitalism that preys upon the masses to benefit minority elites.

Placing Quebec at the foot of the North American imperialistic pecking order, Vallieres explains how the U.S. exploits Canada and how both exploit Quebec. The initial step toward surmounting this is “...to harness our energies and our potential for the realization of...a national, independent state.”

The argument in Choose! is that independence is the prerequisite without which Quebec cannot possess the indispensable political instruments for the transformation of its political, economic, social and cultural structures through socialism.

Vallieres’ socialism is not the blind application of an ideological scheme to be realized abstractly, but the conception and application of economic and social development operating in accord with the needs of the people. Given this *though, he is careful to warn that political independence “does not mean that a Marxist government is an automatic guarantee for the masses that their struggle will be rewarded with a class-free, exploiter-free society.. . . . neither independence nor revolution is the midwife to miracles.‘?

In the words of Rene Levesque, the independence struggle in Quebec is growing “in the classic disorder of a social revolution.”

What Vallieres does with this growth in Choose! is defend with conviction the viability of the Parti Quebecois as the hope of this contemporary socialism.

But socialism as a cure-all, he declares, is an impossibility until many states acquire their own independence.

Only then will peoples desirous of this system have the collective power ) necessary to counter imperialists’ fight against it.

In his role of teaching united action on the political level, Vallieres is specifically, if not solely, trying to create the energy and courage in Quebecois to mobilize human, technical and natural resources in the interests of the economic liberation of the francophone community.~ There are, of

course, many difficulties, the major one being that a dominated society must initially discover what powers it ought normally to possess and what powers’ it lacks.

But Vallieres is optimistic and urges Quebecois not to allow the reality of a long, difficult struggle ahead overcome their desire for liberation.

He asks them to accept as inevitable the fact that the allimportant rewards of their struggle are dependent on other, as yet unidentifiable nations.

Vallieres realizes the possibility of the boycotting of Independent Quebec products by both English Canada and the U.S., with a violent backlash possible from the U.S. in particular.

However, he feels that Quebec will not fall upon Soviet imperialism as an alternative to economic survival should they obtain the help of Latin America and Europe.

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Is the Parti Quebecois, which was formed in 1968, born of the collective and popular desire required for Quebec’s liberation?

Counter to general arguments that the PQ is trying to monopolize the nationalism of the Quebecois petit bourgeois or working class in the interest of the petit bourgeoisie, Vallieres adamantly argues that the PQ is the sole revolutionary instrument of Quebecois.

As a member of the PQ, Vallieres states that so far as the Quebed collectivity exerts the necessary pressure, the Parti Quebecois keeps its political options open. Even though some of its official founders are former members of the Liberal Party, Vallieres projects it’s not therefore a bourgeois party.

The essential differences are that the PQ has no economic ties with the American bourgeois imperialist and colonizer, and has the working man as its prime supporter. Supporting it is not tantamount to betraying the Quebecois cause, but to enhance it. Total emancipation, however, will not suddenly materialize with independence and Vallieres is harshly truthful in pointing this out.

Vallieres decisions since October 1970 were made ‘free’ while under surveillance throughout 1971 when he found himself with the opportunity for self-criticism, “based on a total rethinking of the FLQ issue and on an unemotional study of the current situation.”

The primary lesson he has learned by FLQ policy is that “armed agitation is the ideal way to sabotage the development struggle” : “An armed struggle can only be a mass

struggle conducted by means other than the electoral process when that process cannot function normally or cannot function at all, when the masses can achieve nothing through that process and know they cannot, and when they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking part in a revolutionary war. We’re not yet in that position in Quebec and I think no felquiste (FLQ sympathiser) could say the contrary.”

Assailing the Left -

Finally, Vallieres makes clear his basic underlying conception-that it is the interest of the working class to support and defend monopolistic capitalism: “The working class is no more ,‘virtuous’ than any other, and it doesn’t disassociate its interests from those of its society unless that association is no longer a profitable one. As long as the working class profits by the national policy or as long as it preserves the hope or the illusion of profit, it will support these policies and its own immediate interests rather than the rights of oppressed and pillaged peoples, and even do so in the name of this colonizing and imperialist polity.”

Having laid this groundwork, Valheres summarizes that it would be disastrous for those Quebecois who fatuously dream of the unions forming a new political party based on PQ ideals to confront the PQ with another ‘workers party’.

Quebec unions must go beyond defending the material interests of their members and resolutely j,oin the independence struggle.

Such reasoning is also applied to the FLQ. In spite of honouring FLQ militants for having been “the first coherent, organized demonstration of a radical revolutionary school of thought within Quebec society,” and for having first -“understood that revolutionary thinking without -action is vain and sterile,” Vallieres finds self-criticism of their inherent responsibilities inexcusable.

The result is his public denunciation of the FLQ as an outmoded, moribund organization, promoting a ‘popular revolution’ of sporadic terrorism that is no longer a valid means of achieving the province’s independence.

He calls for the FLQ to dissolve itself as a group, “as a myth, as a ‘terrorist menace’, as a theory and as a practice. ’ ’ Vallieres knows that if it does not, then the FLQ may well deny the liberating nature of the electoral process as practiced by the Parti Quebecois.

For Vallieres, then, the electoral process is a better starting point for revolutionary change in Quebec society.

With the leaders of the PQ as the vanguard of the liberation movement, Vallieres is left in He is also taken by the belief that it is the *position of justifying that choice. In now in the interest of English Canada, the doing so he basically assails two main federal government, to provoke an opportunity that will provide them with an sectors of the Left: .

“Part of the Left practices an economism excuse to intercept PQ progress before it that reduces political struggle to a series can achieve widespread support.

Armed of economic and social grievances without struggle would transform declared strategic political significance.

They enemies of the federal government into believe the demand for self-determination unconscious agents of its strategy and to be _ in support of ‘bourgeois’ repression.

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Another section is so ’ Although he sees the FLQ as “the ideal committed to the universal of the way to sabotage the struggle,” he thinks stereotyped class struggle and proletarian FLQ enterprises will exist for a good while revolution that it refuses all ‘compromise’ yet as “an instinctive retort to the with the particular, dialectical complexity repressive policies of a government of any concrete process of liberation.

They without purpose.”

The government as an prefer the tranquil possession of universal entity unto itself does not go unscathed. truths to the transformation of a society.”

The Liberal Party is characterized as a Both arguments require further group of business men and politicians who description for they occupy the core of have been given the task of applying Vallieres book.

Concerning the latter repressive political measures everytime - group of the- Left, Vallieres vindictively they judge the status quo to be threatenedrefers to these people as “internationalists by the emancipation movement.

-of the abstract”, people who “advocate Up to this point, Vallieres admits that (the ‘universal’ unity of the working class the Quebecois collectively have achieved as if the working class has no country.” next to nothing, and that the PQ suffers “For there’s an uneven development of from a small amount of lazyness and a the class struggle in the world, determined constant fear of being crushed.

These by the uneven development of productive elements must be overcome, and for forces and the hierarchical nature of the Vallieres either this first phase of the world capitalist system...By their abstract struggle takes place in the next few years proclamations from ‘the Communist or Quebecois stand to lose forever the manifesto, meant for European workers of opportunity for self-determination. the first half of the last century, they Choose! is necessarily a short treatise on forget that workers today, placed in I the dialectics of exploitation, and a play to different life conditions, also develop Quebecois to rally behind the Parti differenteven divergentbehaviour Quebecois as the common force in their patterns and interests.

That’s why Quebec separatist bid. In the book’s evolvement workers have divergent interests from Vallieres has shown he has not simply Ontario and American workers.

The inabandoned terrorism - he totally conterests of Canadian and American workers demns it as a reactionary force in the coincide with those of the Canadian and present day Quebec context.

His must be white American societies which share the considered a tactical alignment which profits of the political and economic comes from recent, unexpected successes. domination of Quebec.”

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The co-option of the youth culture is indeed not be worth mentioning except for familiar, well-documented, and by now the naivete of those who view our political perhaps even banal subject, but one which leaders as good-hearted chaps who need is basic to any understanding of cononly hear of an injustice in order to begin to temporary popular music (among other set things right; or who Count on the of a body politic outraged by the things).

The work of the rock critic-cum ’ support conditions described in protest music. ideologist, who discovers “The negation of But then, what is to be done? If protest the negation” in each outraged squeal from music is essentially a reformist enterprise, Jagger, Slick, et al, clouds the issue by an appeal to sentiment and morality rather -encouraging us to believe that protest-rock than an attempt to change the rules of the is “revolutionary-in’-itself,” that the act of game, can there be such a thing as listening is somehow equivalent to more “revolutionary music?”

And if so, what concrete gestures of solidarity.

Such would it be like? blatant nonsense is nevertheless incredibly Although I believe that music is potenseductive,’ requiring as it does only minimal tially revolutionary, my thoughts here are effort to feel one with the counterctiltural still fragmentary and subject to numerous masses : only $5.98 list, in fact, even cheaper at your convenient on-campus Record Co-op. Eliminates the middleman (increases the contradiction?): O.k., pop music isn’t the revolution, at least n&t yet. But if it hasn’t made us into street-fighting men, surely there are a number of performers (Baez, Ochs, Ste. Marie, Havens) who have made us more conscious of social injustice, and particularly of the oppression experienced by certain minorities.

(Note “certain minorities”: women, homosexuals, senior citizens, and people who are left-handed still await their flocks of sensitive balladeers).

If our awarenes? of such situations has increased, which seems indisputable, we are still faced with the question .of what have been its effects, of how we have been encouraged to act-or react-in the world as a consequence.

Or, just what does protest music ask of us?

Without having done any empirical research in this area, the most common request would seem to be some variation of “Give!”

Give us money. Give us jobs. Give us .. . respect. But no matter how militant the tone, no matter how often requests become demands, most of this music is essentially propitiant.

Problems are stated, solutions are (sometimes) proposed, but underlying everything is a fundamental assumption of democratic pluralism : make enough noise, and the system will reallocate its power and resources in response.

This is not an essay in Political Science, and I do not intend a full-scale assault on democratic pluralism-although it is a theory which everyone should assault from time to- time. For my present purposes it is sufficient to remark that while our political system is quite capable of reallocating reso&ces, if slowly, inefficiently, and often with the worst of intentions, it is quite unwilling to divest itself of accumulated power. This is hardly surprising, and would

future qualificbtions.

It seems clear, however, that a revolutionary music must address itself to consciousness rather than conditions, and to a collectivity rather than the isolated “turned-on” individual.

Although there is a place for the analysis of the inequities of existing conditions, in the sense that a community organizer in a ghetto area may focus on trivial but subjectively important issues as a first step in creating a constituency (e.g. the absence of traffic lights at school crossings), the object must surely be the ultimate creation of a constituency “for itself,” committed to a struggle towards self-awareness as well as the struggle to achieve a ,materiallly adequate life.

Two recent recordings demonstrate the difficulty of accomplishing this within the confines of protest music as conventionally conceived. Witlie Dunn (Kot’ai KOT-30000) is an album sponsored

by White Roots of American Indian Peace, a North organization which appears, at least from the liner notes, to be engaged in precisely this sort- of effort. Willie Dunn’s songs, however, although well-crafted and superbly performed, are in terms of both form and content hardly distinguishable from the product of several generations of campus folkies. As part of the growing effort to acquaint White Canadians with the realities of Indian life, the album has some purpose, but its -message is essentially “Look what you’ve done to us (and when are you going to stop?).”

One could argue, I suppose, that the Indian Movement is just barely underway, and that it is too soon to expect radical departures in its music. Such is surely not the’case with Black militancy in the U.S., however, and thus the failure of an album such as The Last Poets’ Chastisement (Blue Thumb BTS 39) is perhaps a better example of the shortcomings of contemporary protest music.

The Last Poets are based in Newark, New Jersey, where they are affiliated with a Black cultural centre founded

by Leroi Jones. Their first Lp, Last Poets, was in many respects a model for the sort of “revolutionary music” discussed above: intensely self-critical, concerned with turning “niggers” into Black men, and

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making few demands for “fairer treatme’nt.”

Chastisement, however, is a regression to self-pity, achieving at best a kind of reactionary nostalgia (which cannot possibly be the basis for future struggle), at worst the purest sort of victim consciousness : “I am just anottier victim of a cruel reality“ is a statement which probably invites more oppression by advertising the untogetherness of the speaker. Reactionary nostalgia is ‘represented by “Before the White Man Came,” an “Everything was groovy” counter-myth to the old “Africans were savages” nonsense which ignores several salient facts about the history of slavery (such as who sold who to whom).

All in all, a sad performance from a once promising group.

A revolutionary music cannot be the mirror-image of the culture of those who oppress, unless one really believes that a Stalin is an improvement over a Nicholas II. It has to tell the truth, even if that calls for criticism of one’s ostensible allies, or for the identification of lies and power plays within “The Movement.”

“The truth shall make you free”: and while there are obvious chasms between knowing and doing and becoming, this phrase remains a succinct expression of the essence of revolution.

Rockin’

briefs

Waterfall (GRT 923-1024)

by If If missed out on the initial wave of big band jazz-rock enthusiasm, and it’s not easy to see why. While they are neither as commercial as Chicago nor as tight as BS & T, they do possess a good deal of vocal and instrumental ability, with reedmen Dave Morrissey and Dave Quincy standing out from the admittedly thin ranks of capable rock horn players. Waterfall won’t blow any minds, but it’s a helluva lot more interesting than Lighthouse’s recent efforts, and if you’re faithfully tuning in to the Paul & George Show (9 PM Thursdays on Radio Waterloo, featuring cuts from new albums), you’ll be hearing the one really super track, “The Light Still Shines.”

Maxoom (Kot’ai KOT 3001) by Mahagony Rush: an eerie album, “Dedicated to Jimi Hendrix” and at times coming too close for comfort.

The drummer and bassist won’t ever be mistaken for Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding;-but guitarist-vocalist Frank Marino does a pretty incredible imitation of Hendrix, falling down only on the extended “Blues.”

Marino’s songs are also quite good, with “Maxoom” a very effective electronic tribute to The Voodoo Chile. The real thing it isn’t, but while one can question Mahagony Rush’s judgement in modelling themselves on the unique Experience, they succeed too often to be ignored.

It’s “Love or Confusion” time, kiddoes, and you’d better listen to this one yourselves. ’ 72nd Brave (Deram XDES-18065) by the Keef Hartley Band: another fawnkey rock’n’roll production, which might do to pass the time until the next Edgar Winter album; then again, it might not, depending on your tolerance for “original” songs which begin with “Once I had a good thing ....” Once upon a time Keef Hartley was being hyped as the successor to Ginger Baker, but he seems to have settled down into making competent, professional, and thoroughly undistinguished music which touches the rock, jazz, and blues bases, but gets thrown out attempting to steal home.

The Ice Man’s Band (Mercury SRM-l648) : soulful background music from Jerry Butler’s accompanists, who demonstrate their taste, musicianship, and inability to sustain interest minus the Ice Man’s passionate vocals. Tough luck, fellas, but only the strong survive.

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Blakeney also spoke to the assembled students. Typical of his remarks, a reporter’s nightmare, was : “We repose confidence in the board of governors, not necessarily to solve all the problems but to do the job which they are presently at least charged with discharging and I think that what is not, at least in our judgement, a search for scapegoats, but rather an examination of the problem to see whether or not there is a way to meeting the point of view which you put forward and still meeting the minimum requirements for some supervisory position if only with respect to semesters which a government with respect to a provincial university must have.” _ He complimented students on their conduct of their sit-in “which permitted the academic work of

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the university to continue and which was not characterized by any destruction of property or other things which only serve to muddy up the points which you are trying to make”-and which was .also unsuccessful.

The occupation began november 16 in the office of the dean of arts and science, Edgar Vaughn to protest his veto of a division of social sciences motion which would have legislated studentfaculty parity in all departments in the division. After a november 20 general student meeting, the occupation expanded to include the ’ office of the dean of graduate studies.

Students ended the occupation november 23 after the Regina campus principal said he was bound by the University Act to leave the matter of representation on committees in the hands of. department chairmen.

Archer did not support parity demands but said he would help students pressure the government to review the University Act, increase student participation and gain autonomy for the two university campuses. Premier Blakeney told students he has complete confidence in principal Archer.

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I suppose that it’s been the rise of technology and literacy that has allowed communication to become diversifted, but this diversification has also led to its fragmentation.

Communication was once much more of a total experience-you not. only heard a nother person’s voice but you saw their actions, and through other aspects of direct encounter, Comfelt their emotions. munication is now divided up into sounds (radio, records), the electro-static combination of sight and sounds of television and cinema (mediated and controlled by producers), starkly black and white words representing much more complex thoughts and emotions but not necessarily reproducing them, and the more total presence of theatre and concert.

In terms of getting across one’s experience along with the, logic one makes of his experience it is obvious that writing is one of the most difficult media-using words is much more specific than mere

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images, such as painting, but in the realm of words, books, magazines and newspaper articles are too often sterile communication.

However, the impersonality of writing often allows one to instill one’s own personality into the concepts that are delineated (if one is willing to go to the effort) for it is necessary to see the symbols of language as the experiences of someone’s life or else the words are meaningless.

This idea of projecting or “hallucinating” one’s own memories into someone else’s words is probably most apt in respect to poetry. The briefness of the phrases and an all-too-often -ambiguity due to the use of unfamiliar words make the concepts suggested in poetry so loose that many different kinds of people can identify with it.

However, there is some (but little) poetry which is so skillfully written that it clearly expresses the commonalitites of groups of people who in most other respects

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breams af my young years were warm in my mi,nd Visions of shadows that shine Till one day I returned And found they were the victims of the vine Of changes -Phil Ochs

Then there is some poetry in which is used such peculiar words and symbols that it makes sense only to the few people who have lived their lives in very similar ways to the poet.

Now the rain-man gave me two cures Then he said “Jump right in”, ’ The one was Texas medicine, The other was just a railway gin; And like a fool I mixed them And it strangled up my mind And now people just get uglier And I have no sense of time.

--Bob Dylan

The general meaning of Milton Acorn’s poetry is relatively clear to me. His attitudes towards western culture and society are, bluntly, revolutionary, and his emotions are expressed in radically humanist terms. There’s a confidence and surety in his verse which invites one to dig deeply enough into his lines to put together his logic & meaning.

Now in this age tormented I’ike a planet beset by comets, when the bourgeoisie’s Twisting on its seat of crime; let’s help hustle them Off the world. In the face of Empires and Their pompous Liberals, their bullying experts, Make sure the People rule here Ourselves our own way.

Poetry is hard to read; only those who put energy into their experience with ‘the words are rewarded with the fruits of communication.

But hearing Milton Acorn recite his own poetry is a littfe surprising-; and not in the sense of his verbalization being more enlightening than expected.

Milton’s voice is harsh to begin with and at the Toronto College of Education’s auditorium Saturday night his pronounciation was badly clouded by what seemed to be poor health ’ (although his spirits were definitely high). At any rate, not only was it hard to pick out -his words, but gaining a sense of the emotions linked behind his memories was also difficult.

His energies were strong (many of his lines were thunderously thrust to the audience) but the contours of his expression were slight.

Perhaps I .might have appreciated Milton’s presentation more (even merely on the basis of

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lf you are interested in good Canadian drama, the Factory Theatre Lab in Toronto will please you. The Sunday November 19 performance of a play by Herschel Hardin, Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk, was a good introduction for me to the sort and quality of work the theatre is doing: Esker Mike is a play in fourteen scenes set in and near Aklavik in the North West Territories during a summer in the early 196O’s., ,Esker Mike- is a hard:drinking, hard-living man who is finding it hard to make enough money- to support all the children his sexual habits have produced.

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his poetry’s strength) if he hadn’t been overshadowed by the. “performance” -of Cedric Smith.

Cedric spent more active time on stage, enticed and received more response from the audience, incorporated more elements (guitar, piano, and singing), and presented more identifiable characters and situations than did MiltonAcorn or Stephanie Nynych, the evening’s third poet.

It’s easy to be suspicious of him at first. It is obvious that he is an actor and has been one professionally for a long time, and’ one-might feel a sense of detachment in his portrayals.

His criticisms and mimicry of bourgeois culture (through the symbols of schools, TV and other media, cars and especially acting and theatre) is devastating, but it leaves one wondering on what sort of ground the actor is standing.

But his positivism is exemplified by stories of farms and the people of small towns and other instances that were light-hearted familiarities even to the predominantly urban audience.

Yet the shining moments of the evening, those scenes which showed the merits of combining the two artists consisted of Cedric’s portrayals of Milton’s

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poetry. Whether he was singing or reciting the material, the coordination of Cedric’s emotional energies matched and filled out the meaning of his stagepartner’s writings.

“Reciting” is too bleak a word_: even with the music-stopped and all distracting noises in the theatre held back, Cedric’s voice and feelings came through clearly and precisely and with unmistakeable life at their core. He wasn’t fooling; he knew what Milton’s words meant in respect to his own memories.

And Acorn probably realised that.

He was certainly neither passive nor lazy on stage but responded with his abundant energies to Cedric’s initiative.

Their interactions were joyful both to each other and ‘to most of the audience, despite the difficulties that existed in understanding the older poet. There was an obvious mutual respect between the two artists, but not so great that it stifled or humbled their activities.

So it takes more, than solid concept to motivate those who would listen, and two parts were played in this performance.

The evening’s content was Milton’s and the life given to it was Cedric’s.

-Steve

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If the script Church. His wife decided that he and the acting are representative would have to be able to afford any of what the Factory Theatre Lab is more children ; otherwise she doing, any future production is would not ‘bear any more. The easily worth a special trip to conflict that is set up between Toronto. Since the theatre is about Esker and his wife gradually in- the same size as the Humanities volves the two churches, the Studio Theatre and since perRCMP and the Canadian governformances are well-attended, it is ment as Esker tries to have his necessary to phone ahead for way with Agiluk, his wife. reservations.

The plot sounds brawling and December l-4 are preview vulgar and it was. At the same nights for a festival of Canadian time, however, it was very real. short plays. There will be two Esker, for example, is sicomplete programs consisting of multaneously aggressive and seven plays each with different pathetic, raging at his wife and at casts and directors.

Opening his inability to do anything about nights are December 5 and 6 his sexual frustration.

His wife’s when the festival begins a run grim defiance of her husband’s which will last until December 22. wishes, overlays principles so The phone number for reserdelicate and right that her vations is 921-5989 and the adanguished expression of them is dress of the theatre is: 374 Dusimple, earthy poetry. pont St., Toronto 4, two blocks Though the script tended at south of Davenport Road. Plenty times to be unclear the excellence of street parking is available. of the acting helped one to sort -There is no admission price things out and to appreciate the though you are asked to pay what intensity of Esker and his wife’s you can. struggle with themselves and -lynn bowers

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floor. Together, these two “inside” brands of Canada’s national sport attract ten teams each. On the ice, the often-played variety (with skates and sticks and pucks and bruises) is supplemented by broomball which presents its share of bruises although not always in the same places.

Hockey warriors blank Brock

Recreational

A Sunday evening game at Waterloo arena does not bring the crowd running, but anyway. A 70-O victory is decisive; and here, a polite opponent offers a complimentary

the occasion and blocked the shot.

Incidentally, Hall had to be one of the stand-outs in the game in spite The hockey Warriors played in a of the number of goals he allowed, as Warriors outshot Brock 63-19. A couple of games on the weekend couple of days earlier Brock lost to and came away with a 3-3 draw with Queens and a 10-O Western 8-2 and were outshot 65-17.

Well, the Warriors hit for two whitewashing of lowly Brock, for goals in the first period with Russ three out of a possible four points Elliott scoring his first of two for in league standings.

Friday night at the barn, the the night and Kaptain Kropf firing Warriors stumbled around in the a single.

In the second period the tempo first period, and defensive lapses picked up slight!y and Warriors put Queens out in front 2-O on goals

by Norm Goulet and Jim Sun- dented the twine three more times with Jim Morris, Mike Guimond strum. and fearless Frankie Staubitz Warriors got it together somewhat in the second period led tallying to make it 5-zip at the end of the second period. (Word has it

by Roger Kropf. Kaptain Kropf that Staubitz mounted the puck he fired two goals to pull the Warriors scored with as it was his first goal even at the end of two periods. The third period saw the teams ex- this season. > In the third period, the Warriors change goals with Kindon of blazed away at Hall in the Brock Queens scoring at the 19 second mark of the third period. That set net, with a series of shots hitting goal posts and cross bars from all the stage for Peter Paleczny who Finally the flood gate dented the twine with a angles. opened and Ted Porter posted his professional-type shot to pull Elliott Warriors into their 3-3 draw, at the first goal as a Warrior; scored his second of two for the 6.30 mark of the final frame.

Dupuis was again exceptional in night, Randy Stubel potted his first of the season, Ralph Biamonte the Warrior net, but sloppy scored his first of the season and defensive errors are still costing Dickie Smith finally put the puck in the Warriors easy goals and forthe net to round out the 10-O cing them to play catch up hockey. hammering.

Warriors almost made it 11-O Brock outshot 63-19. when one of the bleary-eyed Brock defensemen thought the Warriors On Sunday, the Warriors fooled were going to be called for a everyone with a 7 o’clock starting delayed penalty so told his goalie time (instead of the usual 8: 15) and to skate to the bench for an extra had time to get it together on the attacker.

Kaptain Kropf wrestled ice without their usual fan support. the puck free in the corner in the Brock proved to be “slightly” Brock end of the rink and tried to improved over last year’s team (who lost games 24-l and 20-O) as bounce the puck in off the same Brock lunkhead (the one who told they held the Warriors off the score the puck sheet for nearly the first ten the goalie to leave), deflected past the open corner. The minutes of the opening period. distained Warriors settled for ten.

During that time Warrior Dickie Thursday the Warriors play Smith was called upon to attempt a Western at Western at eight and penalty shot because a Brock defenseman fell on the puck in the the next home game is a “biggy” against undefeated Laurentian (4 crease.

Smith skated straight afdown the middle and his attempt to wins, o losses) on Saturday pick the corner was in vain as ternoon at 2 p. m. at the barn.

-Pat Reid Brock goaltender Tom Hall rose to Hockey League East Laurentran Queens York Toron to Ryerson Carleton Ottawa

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Ball, floor -hockey into playdowns Today starts the preliminary rounds of the basketball league.

Games are played at 2: 30,3 : 30 and 4: 30. If you are not sure when you’re playing, check with the Intramural office at ext.3532.

Playoff Predictions for Basketball Preliminary Round.

St. Jeromes over Regular Math by 25.

Co-op Math over Village 1 South by 20.

Arts over Village 2 North by 5.

Village 1 North over Geology by 10.

Village 2 South over Upper Eng by 10.

Volleyball over Bio Recks by 15.

Renison over 0-tometry by 15.

Kin & Ret over Village 2 East by 10.

Quarterfinals

St. Jeromes over Kin & Ret by 10.

Renison over Village 1 North by 2.

Arts over Volleyball by 5.

Co-op Math over Village 2 South by 17 A I .

Archery

Tournament

Forty-four archers, 35 of them from St. Jeromes, turned out for the preliminary round last Monday. Dennis Yool was the highest qualifier , shooting a tournament high of 31 of a possible 45 points in the third round.

In the championship round C. Harley pulled up to Yool in the 20 yard rounds to trail 111 - 108. But when the mark was set at 30 years, Yool pulled well ahead to win 160 118 over second place Harley. St. Denis was third with 102 and Mike Labbe took fourth with 90.

While eyes are limited to the people’s gym, the one at Seagram’s stadium has been busy with action.

Games in the recreation sphere center on the ‘old gym’, far away from the maddening cry of the enthusiastic competitive types.

Most of the activities take place with no necessity for referees. Two other types of hockey are offered during the winter term-ball and

Semi-finals

St. Jeromes Co-op Math

over Renison by 7. over Arts by 3.

Finals

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over Co-op Math by 3.

Ten goals, rime scorers With one game left in the league\ for each team, playoff positions are still up for grabs. St. Paul’s and Co-op remain the only undefeated teams in the league and have first place sewn up in their divisions.

Renison should take second in league.1 with St. Jeromes in third spot.

League II shows Village 1 North, Trojans, and Village 1 South tied with 8 points each. Village 2 West leads League III with 9 points, 1 ahead of Team Waterloo, and 3 in front of North A. League III has Co-op Residence in first spot, with Kin & Ret in second and Upper Engineering and Team Cracker tied for third.

Regular Math and Environmental Studies are tied in their league with 9 points each. Math I holds third with 6 points.

The league will finish Monday night with playoff games scheduled for Tuesday. Check with the Intramural office for the time and place at which you play.

Basketball League I Village 1 North Volleyball Village 1 South Village 1 West St. Jeromes“B” Village 1 East League Village Village Village Village Chevron Lively

Ball Hockey

The playoffs positions are set and the first two rounds were played Wednesday and Thursday.

In the first round action, predicted to win are Erb Street Ballers, Sons of Nabob, Adam’s Apples, T-Nuts, .

Eager Dycks, and the Roadrunners.

In the second round, Erb Street Ballers should defeat the Sons of the Nabob to advance to the finals, while Adam’s Apples will defeat the T-Nuts.

Roadrunners should come out on top. Adam’s Apples will take Roadrunners in the series.

The final game should be a real banger with Adam’s Apples taking on the Erb Street Ballers.

The Ballers could bang up a winner, but watch for the Apples to stick in their throats.

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In floor hockey Mucket Farmers have run through the field with few problems finishing with an undefeated, untied season. Second place went to Grads with 12, Village 1 West is next with 11, and Raiders fourth with 9.

Fifth and sixth positions went to Co-op and Village 1 South respectively.

Mucket Farmers should take the title with little difficulty.

As exams close in on bulging skulls, relaxation can be found in places other than the local watering hole. A little tension relieving run around can be had through the free time activities still being offered in the people’s and Seagram’s gym.

The weight training room, combatives room, gymnastics area and tons more are still around waiting to help some tight student loosen up a little bit before goin’ to the Kent.

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Final standings W 6 5

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The recent preference poll on the university’s intercollegiate athletic program indicates that those who took the time to return their ballots preferred to see the athletic program continue and would also be willing to pay twenty dollars to help it along.

The total number of valid ballots returned was 3,862.

This represents 36.31 percent of eligible voters.

Of those 1,967 students voted for the program to continue with a fee of 20 dollars per academic year. Another 793 voted for the program with a fee of $17.50 per year. Only 317 people said a definite ‘no’ to the program.

If anyone is anxiously awaiting the institution of this preference, they should calm a bit of the anxiety and allow the President’s Advisory council to do what they all along thought appropriate.

There is no reason to assume that any ruling will be made as a direct result of the ‘opinion’ poll.

Now it is clear that students (those who voted) are in favour of an intercollegiate program and would pay 20 dollars to see any event without having to purchase a season’s pass.

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they have no interest in what happens in the gym or at the arena.

Rusky hockey The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming (again). This time the Kitchener Auditorium will be blessed with an appearance.

The Soviet team will not be the national squad, but one notch below and will meet Ontario junior teams in Toronto, Montreal, Kitchener, Thunder Bay, Sudbury and London.

The game in Montreal will be against the Red, white and blue of that city, and the junior team is busy boosting its ranks to offer suitable competition.

Six members of the American Hockey League, Nova Scotia Voyageurs, and four players from Quebec college ranks will be called on to assist.

The tour begins in Hamilton on December 8th against the red wings of that city and on December 15th, the Kitchener hockey fans can see a bit of Russian hockey, presumably against the rangers.

English soccer fans may need Incidentally, if the present 15 to get into games if dollar fee is added to the five for proof-of-age Follows has his wish. season passes the amount paid is Denis Follows is the secretary of the exactly the same as the twenty and dollars which allows free ad- English Football Association mission.

The only difference of his call for a ban was prompted by the ‘hooliganism’ which occurs at football games. course, is that with a 20 dollar Writing in the football compulsory fee students are not association news said: “Statistics able to withhold the other five

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Wrestling results Waterloo placings in the Ryerson invitational wrestling meet last Saturday : Egon Beiler 142 pounds; first, also voted most valuable wrestler of the meet. Four pins and one decision (19-l).

Tim Wenzel 134 pounds; first, three pins and one draw.

Don Spink (158) ; second, two pins one decision (11-O) and one loss (l-

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(126) ; second, one pin, two decisions and one loss (O-1).

Heavyweight Scott Marshall and Tom Gutoski (191) both finished second in their weight classes while Jim Lotimer was third in the 150 pound class. Lightweight (118 pounds) Frank Ogrady ended the day in fifth position,.

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Now that the hockey warriors are rolling along, we think it our duty to remind them and others on campus that Hockey Canada scholarships are once again up for grabs.

The pay-off is worth 2,066 dollars annually and once awarded stays with the athlete until he graduates.

The Fitness and Sports Directorate offers similar awards in’ other sports and there are some deserving people around this campus who are studying with the gentle aid of FASD. Closing date for hockey people is January 31. There are ten of these each year, so it is impossible for the full Waterloo squad to hit paydirt, but they can all try. the Canadian track and field association fired its directors then re-appointed them.

team was the only Lancer to make the CIAU all-star team, but he made it in a big way.

At the same time, Parichi was named winner of the Hec Crighton Trophy as ‘the outstanding intercollegiate football player in Canada’.

Sixteen universities, placed players on the 25man list, which included 13 on offense and 12 on defense. University of Alberta led with five, followed

by Waterloo Lutheran with three. No other university named more than two.

Two Waterloo players made the elite list. Tackle John Buda and halfback Greg Plyley represented the warriors. ’

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week

A vote of non-confidence was passed in the morning led by central Ontario’s delegation chairman Fred Sayers over selection of the Canadian track and field team for the Munich Olympics last summer.

CTFA president Harvey Pearce called for a vote on the Central Ontario motion.

The nonconfidence vote was carried and the directors resigned.

The rest of the morning was spent considering the impact of such a move. After the rebellion was controlled the British Columbian delegation moved that the morning vote be rescinded.

And it was.

Football all-stars Andy Parichi, quarterback for the university of Windsor football

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have a good season and the Notre Dame meet could be one of the big ones of the year. The meet is slated for 3 pm.

On Saturday, the team will be going down to Windsor for their first dual meet of the season, while the Athenas head off to Buffalo on Monday.

Sinden writes

The secretary was not only prompted by the increase in ‘hooliganism’ but a recent drop in attendance at games which seem to trouble the bureaucrats more than anything else.

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Waterloo diver Lester Newby dove well in Sudbury over the weekend at the National championships .

Lester was eighth on the one metre board and placed eighth in the ten metre tower event. The latter placing was exceptional for there is no ‘winterized’ tower facilities in this area.

As far as the results from the three metre goes, Lester would only say that the dives were ‘blowin’ all over the pool’. In all, some 18 competitors took part in the meet held in the new Laurentian university facility.

Next Friday afternoon the Warrior swim team will be opening their home season against Notre Dame.

This marks the first time any Uniwat intercollegiate squad has competed against the Indiana university .

The Warriors who have again bolstered their ranks with freshmen and walk-ons are expected to

Harry Sinden’s new book, “Hockey Showdown”, was put out on the bookstands this morning.

The book naturally is about the Canada-Russian Hockey series through the eyes of the coach.

The book is a day by day diary of the hockey drama that gripped two nations, and comes complete with sixteen pages of pictures; unfortunately none show Al Eagleson being escorted across the ice in that final game.

Sinden, who had help from a Boston sports reporter in writing the book, compares the series with the launching of the first Russian sputnik (which may, or may not, be overstating the event).

And as can be expected the Chevron sports department will be doing a more complete review of the text shortly. So far we’ve got through the pictures.

The women’s athletic council is changing hands for the new year and another executive has been announced. Leading the group into 1972 will be president Lynne Westwood assisted by vice Debbie Dudgeon. Irene Kwasnicki is the newly appointed secretary.

Going out of the hectic job with early morning weekly meetings is now pastYpresident Susan Murphy.

Molson’s Brewery is still in the sport world and recently announced an addition to their standard runs this winter.

In an effort to maximize participation, the organizers have planned a carnival atmosphere at each weekend’s competition.

Costumes, cardboard races, apres ski fests and torch light parades have been added to increase interest.

Registration for any of the events can be done at nine on the morning of the standard run.

There are at least three of these activities planned in any one week from January 6th until the end of March.

Kitchener’s Chicopee Peaks will be the site on February 3 and again on March 24. Other areas close by will also feature this gala ski affair for those with a bit of competitive spirit.

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Fifty dancing girls A count ‘em, fifty This is Grey Cup week, and the Canadian Magazine offered its readers a ‘Special Grey Cup Issue’ to re-acquaint followers with the history and colour of the annual extravaganza.

Credit for the following glimpse of Canada’s big sport event goes to writer Dick Brown.

This is the week to be proudly Canadian.

Wink at a beaver.

Smile at a Mountie.

Have an extra shot of maple sugar on your pancakes.

Grey Cup Week is the time to think of a couple of qualities that make Canada distinctive; rotten weather and a deep hatred between East and West.

Eastern and Western Canada at each others’ are always throats, but in Grey Cup Week it’s official.

Guys start fights over the Freight Rates; or whether Western beef is really better than Eastern beef. Andespecially-they fight over football.

The safest bet you could make right now is that the cops in Hamilton, where the Grey Cup is being played this year, will have on their hands about six-dozen ’ all-out, bleeding-nose, brokenteeth, eyes-swollen-shut, kick‘em-in- the-crotch punch-ups . between the Big Bettors from East and West.

In the last hours to the countdown to game time, East and West declare a truce so both sides can lay in their hoardings of booze; liquor stores across the country become demilitarized zones. Canadian Football League people spend the countdown worrying about the weather.

Asking for fine, sunny weather in the country that gave the world the snowmobile is asking a lot.

No city in Canada is made for football the way Hamilton is.

Regina is very nutsy about the Calgary-but game - so is neither of these cities feels football the way Hamilton does.

Football is tough; big hard linemen, crashing, wrenching tackles. Hamilton is steel: hard work, tough workers, not workers who make lace curtains but workers who make steel.

Hamilton has always played a specially Hamilton kind of

Hamilton has been preparing wide festivities.

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football, grinding the yards out with crunching ground plays. Let those other teams spend all that money on skittery, thoroughbred backfielders.

And it’s worked. No team in the country has had Hamilton’s success.

Nine Eastern championships in the past 16 years. And four Grey cups.

And the Hamilton fans. They know the game. They enjoy line play the way Vancouver and Toronto fans enjoy only the big pass-and-run plays. In Hamilton, they go to a game to watch, closely and carefully.

In Toronto and Montreal and Vancouver you get the feeling that a lot of fans are there to show off their new $200 cashmere sports jackets.

The people in Hamilton have long wondered why the Grey Cup should be played anywhere but Hamilton and maybe they have a point. Anyway, this year it is in Hamilton and it’s great to talk about it to the people there because everyone is so keen about it.

The organizers of the half-time show have an extravaganza that would credit Cecil B. De Mille in his most ambitious years. It will include the 4%piece Tiger-Cat Band, the 125 members of the Burlington Teen Tour Band, the 70-member Ontario Youth Concert Band, 150 flag-bearers, 50 dancing girls and nine floats representing the teams in the Canadian Football League.

During, the show, 5,000 balloons will be released. Also during the show, two skydivers will parachute into Ivor Wynne Stadium and a kite-flyer (flying on a kite) will fly into the stadium.

The game has been a sell-out every year since 1950 and it’s worth a pile-close to $3 million-to the host city, what with all the meals and drinks and hotel rooms and gifts for the wife who’s sore as hell that you spent all that money to fly all that way just for one bloody football game.

Is it worth it? Listen, any event that can bring two strangers from Montreal and Vancouver in some Hamilton bar so they can belt each other out is certainly worth it. It’s the Canadian way.

all week for the annual Grey and balloons are essential.

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Ten in a row The men’s volleyball squad got everything together last Sunday to claim a perfect day with ten wins and no losses. This overwhelming showing on their home court gained the team a first place standing in the OUAA western division.

The Waterloo players showed superior blocking and attacking throughout the day as well as an extremely mobile defense which was vastly improved over last week. The team played as a cohesive unit all day and only on three occasions allowed their opponents more than seven points.

Much of the team’s revived vigor can be attributed to the return of former ailing players Bob Willis and Duncan Calquehoon to the lineup.

In their first match, the warriors picked up a win by default when Waterloo Lutheran failed to produce enough players.

A few minutes later the Golden Hawks were able to play-but were too cold to offer the warriors much opposition going down 4-15.

The next match saw the severest test of the day when the university of Waterloo team was called on to face defending OUAA championsthe Mustangs from Western. After many rallies and a tight see-saw battle, the home squad came out victorious with scores of 17-15 and 15-13. This play under such obvious pressure is one major factor which evaded the warriors last season and if continued should make Waterloo a difficult team to dislodge.

After a two hour break, the

Warriors met Guelph, the pointleader after last week’s tournament in Hamilton.

Play was completely different this time and the -momentum gained by the Warriors through their defeat of Western spurred them to bomb the Gryphons 15-4 and 15-3.

The momentum carried Waterloo on against a tough MacMaster team but after leading 8-0, the Warriors let up and had to squeak out a close 15-13 win. A quick recovery of composure saw Mat go down 6-15 in the second game.

The winless Brock team offered little opposition in the final game and were steamrolled by the Warriors 15-6 and 15-7 as the home squad completed their perfect day.

The team will now rest for the holiday break and resume court action on Sunday, January 17 when they travel to Guelph for another day-long, round-robin tournament.

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Athenas outscore Brock Athenas The basketball travelled to Windsor last friday to do battle with their old rivals, the Lancerettes.

When these two teams meet it usually leads to a close contest and this game was not any different; for the third time in five years Waterloo sneaked out a one point victory on Windsor’s court.

The first half saw a supreme effort by the Athenas both off ensively and defensively . Jane Liddell, Toos Simons and Yonna Luypaert were stand outs in the first half as they helped the Athenas to a half-time lead of 32-18.

The second half saw both teams hit the court with the same idea, stop the opponents offensive, and score lots of points. Windsor came through with flying colours while Waterloo showed a complete turn around from the first half. They could not get their offence rolling again. When they did put up the shot, it was too rushed to be worthwhile. Windsor closed the gap right down and held Waterloo to a miserable 11 points for the half.

As the game was going into the final minute, Waterloo was up one point when Windsor drew the two point foul. They scored both giving them a one point edge.

The Athenas, knowing that they had to get possession, worked hard defensively.

With 12 seconds to go Luypaert managed to come up with a jump ball in the Windsor end.

This was just what the Athenas needed. Windsor called a time out, and Waterloo set up the tap from Yonna Luypaert to Mary Ann Krzyzanowski.

The tap was perfect and Mary Ann executed a nice little pivot and put the ball up and in.

That was the ball game. With 9 seconds left, Windsor tried to set up a play but did not get the ball up court fast enough for the last try at the basket. Waterloo walked away with a 43-42 victory.

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Ex-Warriors lead Windsor in Naismith by wheels and dribbles, the chevron

This years’ Naismith Classic, which was held last weekend, may not have been the most exciting of all time but it did include a lot of good basketball.

Not too many of the games were cliffhangers, especially the first round games2 most of which were won by at least 20 points.

In the opening game of the classic, Eckerd College from St. Petersburg Florida took an easy game from Western.

The mustangs seemed totally inept and just Xcouldn’t get things rolling, while they allowed Eckerd to dominate play.

Although the Tritans did score an abundance of points, they missed a lot of easy plays as well and didn’t have really good shooting from outside. Final , score, 105-77.

The Golden Bears from Alberta put up a good fight in the early going of the second game against

Windsor, but as the contest went on the Lancers slowly extended their early three or four-point lead until finally by the finish they were well out of reach. Mike Frisby was the main factor that kept the Bears in the game at all. He netted 27 points. Deadly shooting by Lancers Bill Lozynsky (21 points) and Brace Coulthard (20 points) was the Windsor squad’s greatest threat. The game ended at Lancers SO and Bears 71.

Despite a 27-point performance

by Rod Dean in the third game, the Lutheran.

Golden Hawks went down to defeat to the Loyola Warriors. The Warriors had a wellbalanced attack and lead most of the way. Stu Laframboise and Fred Moczulski both shot very well on medium distance jumpers, while John (Squint) Erglis and Charlie Chambers controlled the photo by brian cere

The Carleton Ravens were a bit out of their league when they played our Warriors in the last first-round game. The Warriors shot very consistently and their game average from the court was 52 per cent. The only contest in the game was between Mike Moser and the clock. The clock lost when, with 15 seconds left Mike scored his 37th point to break the old record for most points in a single classis game. Moser shot 73 percent from the court and scored from everywhere in setting the record. Dave Montagano led the happless Ravens with 17 points to a final score of 111-63.

It seemed as if a different Western team was on the court for their second game, this time against Alberta. The big difference was Raoul Kreek who pumped in 29 points for his squad. The Mustangs stretched out their lead to 20 points at one time but had to struggle desperately to hold on as the bears closed in on them in the final minutes. They did manage to win though, with a score of 86-83.

Solyom and Tollestrup got 21 and 20 points respectively for the bears.

The sixth, and first game of the championship finals, featured Eckerd and Windsor. The Eckerd team found that all Canadian teams are not as dumpy as Western had been in their first game. The lancers, took control early in the game,, but could only keep a’three- to five-point lead. The Tritons stuck in there until they ran into foul trouble near the finish, when their lack of depth showed up. Windsor finished the game with an eight-point lead, 9183. Chris Coulthard was leading scorer for the Lancers with 18 points, while Bill Lozynsky added 12.

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The second game of the championship semi-finals was, for the hometown fans; the most disappointing. The Warriors of Waterloo faced the Loyola Warriors for the right to meet Windsor. Loyola was victorious, as the Waterloo squad’ had a complete turnaround of play from their first game. Our guards just couldn’t work the ball into the centre for the good percentage shots, and sloppy play by the entire team led to far too many turnovers. They didn’t run as they did in Friday’s game or they might have run the Loyola players into the ground, since only five of their opposition were able to get on the scoreboard.

In the early going they were a little cold from the outside, so everybody froze up and wouldn’t shoot unless they were forced to.

Even with their ragged play, they

still had a chance to win with 45 seconds remaining when they trailed by only three points, but they somehow gave the ball right back to Loyola and went on to loose. Moser netted 21 points and Simons 18 in the losing effort. For Loyola Moczulski and LaFramboise contributed 24 and 22 points respectively to the final score of 72\ 67.

The last consolation semi-final had WLU pitted against Carleton.

Once more the weak Raven team fell short of the mark.

The Lutheran squad took an’early lead and never looked back. Rod Dean scored 20 pointsin the rout while Thompson and Lockhart chipped in with 12 each. Montagano led Carleton once more with 15 points.

Final score, 76-51.

Just two hours later Lutheran played again, this time in the consolation final. Their opponent was Western, who reverted back to their earlier tactics and, except for near the begining they offered little resistance to the WLU squad.

Neal Hegeman played his best game of the classic and netted 16 points. Rod Dean potted 30 points to bring his total for three games to 77, just one point short of the record- for three games. He had plenty of opportunities to break the record, but the ball just wouldn’t

drop. Lutheran won by the score of 76-58.

Loyola and Windsor were matched for the .final championship game on Saturday night.

Windsor jumped into an early fourpoint lead and from then on it was all over for Loyola although they made several comeback attempts.

The Lancers were lead by two exWarriors, Bill Lozynsky who sank 21 points and Ernie Hehn who got 16. The Lancers won the championship to the tune of 86-69.

The all-star team for 1972 included both Coulthard brothers from Windsor, Rod Dean from Lutheran, Mike Moser from Waterloo and Fred Moczulski from Loyola.

Chris Coulthard was selected as the MVP of the tournament.

Even though the Waterloo contingent didn’t make it to the final game, there were a lot of fans at the game and it was obvious that they appreciated good basketball.

Waterloo coach Don McCrae was ’ disappointed in his team’s showing, and hopes the Warriors will still prove to be one of the teams to challenge Windsor for OUAA supremecy in the upcoming league season. The Lancers visit the People’s Gym again December 6 to meet the Warriors in the league opener for both teams.

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Some time ago a popular f-ilm attempted a parody of the cut-throat activities of interhational security agents. In a whimsical flourish, the Phone Company was revealed as the moving force behind American intelligence agents, an ominous force secretly directing the nation’s life. While the film stretched its metaphorical reference to ATT beyond belief, a bit of truth remained in picturing the Phone Company as hidden power that, much like a child’s inflatable toy, absorbs without change any blow levelled against it.

The modern sense of the word frustration may derive from our contact with the telephone company.

How many students have not had the joyous experience of renting their first telephone?

The allure of phone ownership quickly gives way to the realities of the telephone game; Ma Bell’s monthly reminder of status appears, and checkbook and psyche are required, on pain of telephone removal, to accomodate her idiosyncracies.

The, initial ritual of replacing one black wall phone with another, a ten minute scene which costs eleven dollars, is depressing; probably you forget it, chalking it up as a legitimate price for a public service.

Several months later you may perceive that you are pre-billed anywhere from 15 to 20 days before the month’s end. Perhaps you retaliate by calculated late payment; then again if you’re aggressive you call the company for answers-in which case some cosmetic voice quickly dispels the basis of your complaint.

-Various repetitions on this theme breed a permanent frustration, a tiny cancer that screams each time Ma Bell outdoes herself.

Recently a friend applied for a telephone, only to be subjected to a barrage of questions about her history.

Unsuspectingly she answered honestly the “routine” questions posed by the Bell functionary, only to learn that her part-time student, part-time employee status meant she was a “poor. risk”.

To Bell a solid record as a social worker and an unblemished credit rating mattered little. Her category (Class M) dictated the need for a good reference and the posting of a $50 deposit. Rational argument found no place in the dispute; hard cash was the only acceptable solution.

At about the same time Bell Canada steered a 5 per cent general rate increase past the Canadian Transport Commission (CTC), a feat which netted the company an additional $47.2 million in revenues.

Bell was miffed at the CTC’s decision, for in its submission to the “public” regulatory board it argued for increases amounting to $78 million annually.

Several weeks ago Bell Canada appeared again at the CTC’s door, this time with a request for increases to cover both 1973 and 1974. The cumulative effect of these hikes, if granted, would mean: 0 raising the base rate from $5.40 to $5.80 per month ; 0 doubling installation charges from $11 to

$22;

@doubling of pay phone charges from 10 cents to 20 cents per call; 0 creation of a “directory assistance charge” of 25 cents per item except in the case of an unlisted number, blind caller or

calls tendered from a hospital or hotel room ; 0 increased service charges on long distance calls and on the per minute overtime rate.

As a rationale for the application Bell has noted that in order to finance necessary expansions “profits must be sufficient to attract investment money;” while the company’s profits have been rising “its return on investment remains too low” to guarantee interest.

Bell is certainly more humble before the power of the commissioners than when it processes our small complaints, yet it employs the same stock arguments.

Due to its position in the economy Bell is protected from the hazards of competition, in return for which privilege it releases the fixing of telephone rates to the “public”., While Bell is assured of making a profit, it isn’t allowed to determine for itself the maximum price the traffic will bear. Bell’s arguments in favour of increases all hinge on the premise that this condition places the company at an unwarranted disadvantage.

Bell Canada controls some 6 million of the 9.7 million phones in the country.

It is argued that modernization of this massive network requires a good deal of capital each year-money which Bell claims can only partially be squeezed from profits. The accumulation of this capital (an estimated $500 million in 1972, $550 million in 1973 and better than $600 million in 1974) is hindered solely by public maintenance of the profit margin well below the going rate.

They suggest that “its rate of return is so far below the level of a fair and reasonable rate of return under existing circumstances and conditions that the company’s financial

strength is seriously weakened.”

However Bell’s “poor” financial position Bell generalizes directly from this in the Canadian economy is not as certain position. Low profits mean a smaller pool of as the company would have us believe. In funds for direct employment in socially the first place Bell enjoys the unique status useful projects.

Moreove.r, and more imof a state-sanctioned monopoly.

This’ portantly for Bell ideologues, low profits position guarantees the company an reduce the company’s stature on the stock ongoing market not subject to loss through market-it is claimed that regulated profits competition nor-due to the essentiality of make Bell shares render a-lower than the service-subject to loss through average yield to investors, thus making eventual product irrelevance.

The ecothem unattractive on the market.

The nomic solidity this situation brings more prime method of raising capital through than compensates for Bell’s prices being share sales is thus arbitra-rily cut off. subject to public scrutiny.

From this Bell sees rate increases as Secondly Bell’s financial profile is much “necessary to make telephone shares a better than the company allows. A brief more attractive investment.”

The 1973 submitted to the CTC last March by the requests will merely “prevent deterioration United Electrical,’ Radio and Machine of the profit position of the company” while ’ Workers of America (UE) provides the those for 1974 will “improve profit and following information : thus improve the ability of the company to “Bell Canada’s net earnings in 1970 were raise capital.” $210,759,000.

Net income, after interest, notice; all others get sent a denial notice (saying we will cut off their service if the bill isn’t paid within ten days).

On the final review of “risk” accounts, customers who still have not paid are telephoned (the personal touch), and arrangements are made for payment of the account. All customers except A and B pleased to reconnect the service.:.

-I’m sorry you feel that way. Good-bye. customers are “quoted D (denial)“.

The Sometimes it’s worse. Sometimes you treatment calls are another of the small tell us your husband is laid off and you just horrors of the job.

-got out of hospital and baby’s sick and the Every SR has about 150 to 250 risk nearest neighbour is, 2p miles away. I accounts on her position at any one time. know how you feel, because I’ve been Collection is a never ending process, and there too. But I still have to disconnect the the schedule must be kept at all times. We are never given time to be sympathetic or service. If it isn’t me, it’s somebody else, conciliatory.

If and when an account is and right now my baby’s sick and my disconnected, the collection of the ‘final husband’s bid off, and we have to liv,e accounts’ begins.

“You’ll enjoy these, somehow.

Mary,” my supervisor told me, “they are . ’ Most days there are 5 to 15 calls like so much more interesting.”

This kind of this to make before’9 a.m.! The company collecion involves calling nearby extends credit to customers on the basis telephone numbers to try and get hold of of their “ability and willingness” to pay, that is, their class and .rebelliousness. the customer, calling Long Distance parties he has on his bill to get more inClass A customers are large companies on his whereabouts, and and the government; Class B is allowed to - formation run a two month bill under $25.00 or a sending more not ices.

If all these one month-bill up to 10 times their local measures fail to bring results, the account service; Class C is allowed $15.00; Class is sent ot the Bell Collection Division for D isallowed $10.00; and Class M is asked tougher tactics. for a “maintain credit”, a deposit of 0 0 0 0 $50.00 or more. The classification is If you could catch an information alm?ghty. It is the sole determinate of a operator long enough when she is leaving customer’s relationship with Bell. the office, and ask her ta-tell you a little The Bell never collects accounts, it about what her day was like, she might “treats” them. This treatment is about there was nothing special say, “Well, about today, except that I came in a one-third of the SR job. In most cases it is minute and half late because some of the done by mail, with small blue and white clocks around the building were slow and I notices. B customers get sent a reminder

Fromfhe'in-side I’m that snooty person in the business office who duns you for bills, hears your complaints and takes the order when you want to change your telephone around.

The company calls us Service Representatives (SR’s). You think we all sound like recordings.-I’d like to give you my side for a change.

My day begins with the joyous task called “doing my 101~‘s”. That is company language for calling the customers to inform them that we are disconnecting their telephone that day for non-payment of the bill. Most calls go something like this: -Hello, Mr: Johnson? This is Mrs. Carter from Bell Canada calling. We are calling about your telephone account?

Has it been paid?

-Mr. Johnson, we sent you a letter last week to advise you that wePmust have payment in full yesterday...

-lunderstand how you feel Mr. Johnson, we don’t want to take food out of your children’s mouths. After all the telephone is a privilege. No, we cannot extend credit.

There is an amount of $20.00 outstanding, and you have not been a particularly good customer of ours...

-Well, I’m sorry but we will have to disconnect the service this morning.

When the account is paid in full we will be

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discounts and premiums on long-term debt was declared to be $133,262,000.

This figure, when added to the declared provision for depreciation of $183,850,000 represents a cash flow through the corporate treasury for that year in the amount of $317,112,000.”

UE concludes “that the amount mentioned is a formidable sum and in our view it should be more than enough to maintain and improve the technological competence of the company in providing service, especially domestic service.”

Adding support to this, idea is the fact that Bell’s net earnings “have increased in every year since 1943 and in the eight years 1963-70 net earnings have more than doubled.”

Bell notes that the newly proposed increases will lift the company to a level of 8.6 per cent return on invested capital, making it more secure on the stock market. Without denying this, we can suggest that there are other ways of raising modernizaton monies.

Moreover since these funds will ultimately make possible- a greater profit for the company, Bell should be expected to draw on these sources first.

The most prominent of these methods follows from the existence of a depreciation reserve fund within the company of $1,039 billions (as of 1970). Bell may well invite the corporate ethic to claim that this is in reserve for depreciation on equipment currently in use. However, it is not illiberal to suggest that this amount forms a stable, credit base from which Bell can readily borrow the balance of needed funds not directly achievable from profits.

Marry this with the knowledge that Bell Canada is tied in with AT&T, a monolithic corporation with assets exceeding $49.5 billions and a yearly profit of $2.5 billions, and you have cause for wrath.

Bell’s arguments prove thin on other levels.

The development of modern telephone technology-advanced switching and transmission systems especiallymeans less expensive, more efficient service. Technological improvement means productivity and increased more productivity heralds better returns on the invested dollar. In this regard UE has noted : “In 1957, Bell’s peak employment year, 41,363 employees handled a daily average of 18.6 million local telephone calls and 336,000 long distance calls. In 1970, just over 39,000 employees, a reduction of some 2,000, were required to look after a volume of service that was practically double that of 1957. Daily averages for 1970 were 35.4

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million local and 790,000 long distance calls.”

UE suggests that “Bell’s continued earnings growth and expanded capability through technological advance warrant a decrease rather than an increase in rates to domestic subscribers-” No reductions appear to be in the offing at present.

With nauseating frequency Bell asserts that its increases are merely intended to put it on a sound financial footing. Each year the requested increase is touted as the one that will straighten things out.

Some will argue that Bell is never granted its full request and must reapply each subsequent year. Other commentators feel that Bell is wise to the ways of the CTC and that it “has successfully applied for a given increase in pe!missible earnings level in the expectation that a compromise will be reached allowing for half the amount.”

There will be no solution to the telephone malaise for so long as the idea of a private corporation controlling a public service remains acceptable.

Despite the fact that we have nominal control through the CTC, its power-even if the political appointees on it worked for the public’s interestcould do little to curb’the activities of Bell.

Refusal to allow fee increases, not to say the provision of reductions, would produce a proportionate lowering of the quality of existing services and improvements such that Bell would continue to procure the same returns.

The only appropriate move-and under existing governments it could only be a partial solution-is to recognize the primacy of the communications industry in Canadian life and to found a public corporation to provide the necessary services.

Once fully under public control the telephone industry could stabilize its costs, thus relieving us of part of our frustration.

Moreover it could be organized internally to eliminate the machine-like relations currently fostered among Bell employees, thus removing the bitterness and manipulation which colours the consumer’s present contact with the company.

So long as Bell remains privately controlled it will continue to call the shots in a game in which only the Canadian public can be the loser. ’

p followed the wrong one. I put on my book. You think you’ve got headaches?

Information operators know that every headset and my sexy voice with a smile, up in and rushed to take my place at the in- time they ask you to look something they’re phasing themselves formation board. Before I could pick up my the directory, out of a job. first call, a sup. plugged in to my position At the same Rime, each girl is required and informed me I’d been marked latecalls per and that if I’d only been a ‘minute and a to handle about 120 information hour. That works out to a call every 30 half late I could have been on time, and seconds or so. Objectives like that were “How could we run an office if everyone set by someone who’d either forgotten or were so irresponsible?”

1 at Mentioning that her time would be never known what it was like working information.

It takes a long time to find better spent checking the clocks rather some listings and once you’ve lost a few than chewing me out would have conminutes-it’s hard to make up that time’ stituted insubordination and I’d have so you can still meet the objective.

At all been reported as having an attitude times, even towards the end of an hour, problem. So I let it pass. when an operator knows they’re doing a -Operator, can you give me fhe number “spot count” on her and she begins to get for Radio Station CKEYT frantic, she still must be pleasant and if -Have you checked your directory?

-Look, operator, if I wanted to do that, I she can’t be friendly, at least sound sexy.

Thisgoes on, not just for one hour a week, wouldn’t be calling you, would I?entire working day.

-Yes-well, the number is listed at the but for an operator’s Ma Bell doesn’t like to see her girls get beginning... bored, so now and then she raises -Operator, the number, that’s all, just the standards.

She insists that if some girls in number... the office can meet them-certainly all of --..of the C’s in your directory... us should-and then sits back and wat-‘ -Oh, come on-l know where it is-just ches all her little people scrambling to give me the number.. out-do each other.

-Yes, of course, the number is...

And so, Mr. Customer, this is what it’s Sound familiar? You bet! And I’ll bet you Ii ke to be the bitch on the other end. always thought the Operator was just I wish I could protect myself giving you a hard time because it was a Somedays like some of the other employees do, and slow morning and she had nothing better see the Company as always right and the to do? Actually that whole spiel about’ customers as either stupid or malicious. looking in your book is really part of Ma But I can’t. All I know is that I hate Ma Bell Bell’s Directory Assistance Volume too, and I just always wanted to tell you Control. Eventually (because it isn’t going too well) you’ll be charged for calls to how much.

--written by bell operators, excerpts adapted information if the number is listed in the

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